Vance (and no doubt Trump) believe the Judiciary is not an equal part of the US govt

[MarathonMike]

'Profoundly Wrong': JD Vance Tears Into John Roberts' Assessment Of The Role Of Courts

“That’s one-half of his job,” the vice president said.

uk.yahoo.com

"“I thought that was a profoundly wrong sentiment,” Vance said during an interview with The New York Times’ “Interesting Times” podcast recorded during his trip to Rome.

“That’s one-half of his job,” he added. “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.”"

Now while I think the way justices are promoted to their roles should be changed to make it less partisan, the Supreme Court and the judiciary is clearly a separate branch. Anyone with any knowledge of the US Constitution knows this.

But Vance is peddling crap, he knows he's wrong, he doesn't care.

This, along with Trump saying he'll run for a third term, and other things, shows just how dangerous people like Trump and Vance are. They don't care for the checks and balances of the country that were introduced to stop people like them in the first place.

We know the America haters miss seeing the thousands of illegals pouring into the country every day. Too bad, elections have consequences.

 

[Moonglow]

One local judge’s ruling being able to thwart what the entire nation can do is nothing but mini-authoritarian activists trying to hamstring the government in power. It’s crazy

If law is being abused and broken someone needs to speak out to expose such undermining.

 

[Moonglow]

We know the America haters miss seeing the thousands of illegals pouring into the country every day. Too bad, elections have consequences.

They are still coming and being created.

 

[frigidweirdo]

We know the America haters miss seeing the thousands of illegals pouring into the country every day. Too bad, elections have consequences.

A huge difference between supporting immigration or not, and accepting that there are different branches of government in a system of checks and balances.

I have been on this forum a long time and I have spoken about a need to change the electoral system to stop the craziness.

More oversight from voters with Proportional Representation. Who listens? Not you.

I'm giving you the best solution to the problem at hand, a solution that will make politics saner. What do you do? Just keep supporting one of the crazies and attacking the other crazies without even thinking what the best for your own country would be.

 

[toobfreak]

More oversight from voters with Proportional Representation. Who listens? Not you.

Oh, just stop the nonsense. Everyone knows proportional voting is just an easier way to rig the outcome because your vote does not end up supporting the person you voted for.

The simple fact is that a lowly district court created by Congress cannot have standing over the Elected Executive officer, that itself would elevate them above the Supreme Court! No president will ever get anything done in that upside-down system.

District courts are for settling small, local matters before the judge affecting that district. Injunctions against a sitting president can only come from the SCOTUS.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Oh, just stop the nonsense. Everyone knows proportional voting is just an easier way to rig the outcome because your vote does not end up supporting the person you voted for.

The simple fact is that a lowly district court created by Congress cannot have standing over the Elected Executive officer, that itself would elevate them above the Supreme Court! No president will ever get anything done in that upside-down system.

District courts are for settling small, local matters before the judge affecting that district. Injunctions against a sitting president can only come from the SCOTUS.

Nope, it's actually the other way around.

Look at FPTP. To rig an election, you only need to rig the close races.

The Closest House Races

Looking ahead to 2026.

www.soulsandliberty.com

"In all, 29 House winners claimed their seats with less than 52% of the vote."

"The closest race came in northern California, where Democrat Adam Gray unseated then-Rep. John Duarte (R) by just 187 votes. In 2022, the two battled to a difference of 564 votes, but in the opposite finishing order. "

So, how much money do you think gets poured into a district where the differences are minute?

Loads. Because that money is manipulating people.

If you have PR, you need to manipulate THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

If you manage to flip those 29 seats, that's a huge different and it can be done with a few thousand people changing their votes.

Look at Germany in 2025.

The CDU gained 164 seats with 11.196 million votes. 68,000 votes per seat.

So, to gain ONE SEAT you need to flip 68,000 votes. In the US to flip one seat you only need, in some cases, a few hundred votes.

In Germany, a federal election costs LESS than one expensive US senate seat. Why? Because the senate is a fierce competition because a few seats changing can give you the Supreme Court, it can impeach presidents, it can do so much.

In German it's not like that.

Also, with PR people are more likely to vote for who they want to vote for.

The US has two parties. People will vote negatively.

In Germany they vote FPTP and PR at the same time. In 2017 the CDU/CSU got 36% of the vote and 77% of the seats. Fair? Nope.

With PR that changed, up to 10% of the population will change their vote.

In 2025 19 million voted for the main two parties with PR and 22.5 million voted for them with FPTP. So 2.5 million people felt they had to vote negatively for a party they didn't want, because they worried about another party getting in that they hated more. With PR they voted for smaller parties and got more oversight.

The CDU had Merkel in power for a long time, and because of another right wing party, the CDU/CSU has had to moderate itself in order to get votes. Without it, they might just go crazy.