Vice President J.D. Vance was slapped down on MSNBC Sunday morning over comments he made earlier in the week about the Supreme Court where he suggested the Donald Trump administration is beyond the court's control.
In an interview with the New York Times' Ross Douthat, Vance lashed out at Chief Justice John Roberts by stating, "I saw an interview with Chief Justice Roberts recently where he said the role of the court is to check the excesses of the executive. I thought that was a profoundly wrong sentiment.”
He then added, "That’s one-half of his job. The other half of his job is to check the excesses of his own branch. You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for. That’s where we are right now.”
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Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, no relation to the VP, set Donald Trump's right-hand man and attack dog straight.
"So I'm not going to mince words here," she began. "J.D. Vance is a Yale-educated lawyer; he understands how judicial review works. And since early in the history of our country, a landmark Supreme Court case, Marbury versus Madison, just after the founding the Supreme Court has had the power of judicial review."
"It can review conduct by either the legislative branch or the executive branch, the president, for constitutionality," she bluntly elaborated. "It is not supposed to execute the will of the American people and the vice president knows that."
"It's supposed to compare actions taken by other branches of government for consistency with the Constitution," she told host Jonathan Capehart. "And it has the ability to strike them down when they run afoul of that."
"End of story," she concluded.
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