Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“Vice President J.D. Vance thinks the courts have no business questioning President Donald Trump’s use of a wartime law to summarily deport alleged criminal aliens during peacetime. ‘I think that the courts need to be somewhat deferential,’ Vance told New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. ‘In fact, I think the design is that they should be extremely deferential to these questions of political judgment made by the people’s elected president of the United States.’ There’s just one problem with Vance’s view: He’s wrong about both the design of the American constitutional order and the judiciary’s role in it. Let’s start with the role of the courts. The idea that the judicial branch owes special deference to the elected branches of government was thoroughly rejected by the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution.” (05/30/25)
https://reason.com/2025/05/30/what-j-d-vance-gets-wrong-about-judicial-deference-to-executive-power/