during Wide -ranging podcast With the New York Times published on Wednesday, Vice President JD VANCE said that judge chief John Roberts was “very mistaken” for the recent comments he made the role of the Supreme Court to verify the excesses of the executive.
“I thought this was a very wrong feeling. This is half of his job. The other half of his job is to check the excesses of his branch,” Fans said. “You cannot have a country in which the American people continue to elect the enforcement of immigration and the American courts tell that they are not allowed to have what they voted for. This is the place where we are now,” Fans continued.
Vans’s comments occurred during the discussion of the administration’s immigration policies and initiatives, which were met with rapid legal procedures. Vans said the White House believed that Trump “has an extraordinary public power.”
“I think you see, and I know this is an inflammatory matter, but I think you see an effort by the courts to literally cancel the will of the American people. To be clear, not most of the courts.”
Vice President JD Vance speaks to correspondents on Air Force Two at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport, in Rome, May 19, 2025.
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Earlier this month, Roberts made statements in Bovalo, New York, where he stressed the importance of judicial independence and how the judiciary is a participating branch of the government.
Roberts said: “In our constitution, judges and the judiciary is a participant branch of the government, separate from others who have the authority to interpret the constitution as law and beatings, clearly, the actions of Congress or the president’s actions.” “This innovation does not work if the judiciary is not independent.
Vans’s comments are part of a greater argument, as the White House made months – that the president has the executive authority to enhance immigration policies, regardless of what the courts might say.
John Roberts, chief judge at the Supreme Court, speaks during a lecture to the Graduate College of Law in Georgetown in 2025, in Washington, DC, May 12, 2025.
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On Friday, the Supreme Court extended its Al -Zarri order, which temporarily prohibits the Trump administration from removing Venezuelan immigrants from the United States under the law of foreign enemies and sent the case to the Court of Appeal in the fifth circle to resolve the issue of time in which detainees should be granted to the imposed competition.
Discussing the administration’s use of the law of foreign enemies, Vans defended the White House’s use of the law and said that the courts need to be “very certain.”
“I think the courts need to be somewhat confirmed. In fact, I think the design is that they should be very supportive of these issues related to the political ruling issued by the head of the people elected to the United States,” Vans said.
