Yes, Vance Thinks Trump Can Defy the Supreme Court: I interviewed the vice president last year, and he didn’t mince words about wanting to provoke a constitutional crisis against the Supreme Court.
Yes, Vance Thinks Trump Can Defy the Supreme Court: I interviewed the vice president last year, and he didn’t mince words about wanting to provoke a constitutional crisis against the Supreme Court.
Archived at https://archive.is/mzBfP
"Yes, Vance thinks" is the news here
Vance is right. There are no consequences, so everything is allowed.
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
-- Reputed last words of Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Order of Assassins.
Yes, they do use that phrase in the Assassin's Creed games, but that's not really relevant here.
Well, it depends. If everyone does what Trump says instead of what the court says then that's true. If the people who actually do the work do what the court says, then that's not true.
Possible consequences (copied from Russia, 1993):
- tanks fire at parliament, speaker of parliament urges air force to bomb the Kremlin (they didn't)
- subsequently, the president gets powers resembling a monarch, and installs the next president, who evolves into a president-for-life
How to avoid -> most likely, refusal of all agencies to follow an order that a court has struck down. But for this to work, mass replacement of public officials with loyalists must be prevented.
In several instances dating back to the start of his Senate campaign in 2022, the vice president has explicitly said that a second-term Trump should defy the courts — even the U.S. Supreme Court — if they stand in the way of him exercising executive authority in ways he deems fit.
Yet we're only hearing about this interview once he's in power?
That got settled when Andrew Jackson wasn't dragged out of the White House and reinforced when he's not universally seen for the criminal autocrat he was.
Why would he need to if they're already effectively in his pocket?
He wants them to have existential fear that keeps them in his pocket
I guess packing the courts with bootlickers wasn't enough for them
I'm trying to think of a reason he can't and am coming up empty. Nobody will do anything about it.
Lol. "against" the supreme court? The grand majority gargle Trump's balls regularly.