JD Vance Is Playing a Dangerous Legal Game: Noah Feldman

Feb. 10, 2025, 8:16 PM UTC

The federal district courts have been standing up to Donald Trump’s illegal executive actions, blocking or pausing multiple orders from the denial of birthright citizenship to unprecedented data access for Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”

It’s neither surprising nor especially worrisome that Musk is now attacking the courts — he doesn’t know anything about law or the Constitution and seems to view both as minor irritants. What is of concern is the effort by Vice President JD Vance, a law school graduate, to undermine the fundamental constitutional principle that the executive branch must comply with a federal court ...

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