The New Yorker:

The Vice-President says it’s time for Chief Justice John Roberts to step in and make judges behave. He’s wrong.

By Ruth Marcus

Vice-President J. D. Vance offered some unsolicited advice to Chief Justice John Roberts the other day: the federal courts need to be more deferential to Presidential authority, and the Supreme Court must do a better job of keeping lower-court judges in line. Vance was speaking to the New York Times’ Ross Douthat about the Trump Administration’s nearly unbroken string of court losses in immigration-related cases. These setbacks, in Vance’s telling, represent an undemocratic project by some federal judges to undo the election results.

“I know this is inflammatory, but I think you are seeing an effort by the courts to quite literally overturn the will of the American people,” Vance told Douthat. He referenced a recent interview with Chief Justice Roberts, in which Roberts said that one role of the Court is to check the excesses of the executive. “I thought that was a profoundly wrong sentiment,” Vance said. “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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