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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

JD Vance picks new fight with Supreme Court over its power to check the president: ‘Profoundly wrong’

Vice President JD Vance pushed back on Chief Justice John Roberts’s assertion that courts have the authority to “check the excesses” of the executive branch, saying the statement was “profoundly wrong.”

Amid a battle between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary over several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders and decisions, Vance placed blame on courts for wrongly interpreting the Constitution and getting in the way of Trump’s agenda.

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