JD Vance sabotages self with attack on Supreme Court
By Kimberley Strassel
Published May 30, 2025, 6:55 p.m. ET
If the British coined the term “too clever by half,” Vice President JD Vance might own the political update of “too smart by 99%.”
And Donald Trump might wonder at what point he asks his veep: please stop helping — at least when it comes to Trump’s greatest legacy and biggest asset, the Supreme Court.
Vance recently offered his own take on the “role” of that body, in particular Chief Justice John Roberts’ “profoundly wrong sentiment” that the judiciary exists to “check the excesses of the executive.”
The vice president finger-wagged that this was “one-half” of the job; the “other half” was to stop a “small but substantial number” of courts from telling “the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for,” namely “immigration enforcement.”
Also, to be “extremely deferential” to the “political judgment” made by “the people’s elected president of the United States.”
Vance did at least preface his comments with a warning that they may prove “inflammatory” — before inflaming away.
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