It’s like these people have never read a book in their lives.

JD Vance has a law degree from Yale.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/new-hampshire-primary-2016-live-updates/2016/02/republican-debate-marco-rubio-obama-knows-what-hes-doing-218877

"Let’s dispel with this fiction that ~~Barack Obama~~ JD Vance doesn’t know what he’s doing,” ~~the Florida senator~~ I said. “He knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s trying to change this country.”

Thanks for letting me crib you, Marco Rubio, you fucking buffon, because yeah. JD Vance literally has a degree in this field so he knows unequivocally what the truth actually is. He knows exactly what he's doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance#Early_life,_military_service,_and_education

Vance then attended Yale Law School, where he was a member of The Yale Law Journal

as Vance was about to graduate from Yale with a Juris Doctor degree.

Just like the Bible, they love the idea of the Constitution, but they haven't actually read it.

They have someone else interpret it for them, so they don't have to think.

At a minimum you’d think a rabid conservative fanbase that claims to love the constitution would be aware of this

Conservatives who say they love the Constitution are a bit like Prosperity Gospel preachers who say they love the Bible.

They don't see this statement as an expression of ideology. They see it as a psychological hack to disarm their audience.

That would require Republicans and US Conservatives to have actual ethics and principles

The idea of a politician with principles used to be the punchline to a sitcom comedy routine or the climax of a utopian drama.

It's dizzying to see people blindly trust what has always been a pool of con artists and hustlers, both along conservatives (who doge-edly insist Trump is the Real Deal) and liberals (who keep screaming "hypocrite!" at a party that flaunts its hypocrisy)

Oh, they know exactly what they're doing. They are attempting (and apparently succeeding) to bulldoze their way through an administrative coup.

Yeah don't you remember the ~~3~~ 1 branches of government?

Correct. Conservativism comes from a means of fanboying for the monarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism

What could be smaller than just 1 person?

The English beheaded their king for claiming to be above the law more than a century before the USA was founded.

Today, the primary responsibilities of U.S. Marshals include protecting federal judges and witnesses, transporting federal prisoners, apprehending federal fugitives, and managing assets seized from criminal enterprises.

Oh, sweet.

The President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoints U.S. Marshals for a 4-year term.

Oh. Oh no.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/a91787.html#:~:text=The%20President%2C%20with%20the%20advice,for%20a%204%2Dyear%20term.

Whoa now, that's a bit reactionary.

The reason for the shit show is that it's all based on good faith. And if a power hungry dictator tries to control the executive....well, the legislative is supposed to keep him in check.

It's also based on the presumption that the people wouldn't willingly elect, let alone re-elect, a blatantly corrupt president and Congress that enables them...or at least have few enough bad ones to be able to break party lines and put a stop to it.

Ideally, enough Republicans on Congress would have enough of a spine to actually put country before party and stop this shit. Start impeaching judges and presidents. Don't let anything else get done.

Nope. They all sold out on their party. Fucking despicable. Not even worth spitting on.

I can't wait till someone spills the beans on whatever kompromat or bribes or imperius curse has got such a tight grip on the party.

Non judicial punishments and courts martials make up the american military legal system.

NJPs are basically your commanding officer saying "you did this wrong, you're grounded. Half pay and stay in your room for a month"

Courts martials are an actual legal proceeding with a military judge who says "you did this wrong, straight to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200"

All this to say, yes. In fact, there are jobs in the military that can be legally punished with execution if they aren't performed diligently even during peace times.

It is very annoying how it keeps appearing every time Democrats are in charge and they suddenly will not get anything done.

did you drop a “them”?

He's sowing disinformation (lies) so his dumbass followers have something to argue for, and to create distractions for the real crimes.

Playing dumb and saying dumb shit is the new fascism!

Which is why he's deliberately choosing ambiguous and non-binding language in this tweet. If questioned later (I presume at the Hague) he can then say "well, I said 'command' not 'rule' so I wasn't speaking about actual legal rulings, just you know, like when a judge tells someone to do something, not a ruling in a courtroom...."

Fucker knows how seditious this is so he's riding the line.

JD is drawing false equivalence, to lead to the conclusion that law doesn't matter.

Does a judge plan a military operation? No. But they can establish if it is legal.

That's their whole job, to establish if actions violate the law. If they violate the law, they can order them to stop.

Judges don't write the law. You don't like the judge's ruling? Change the law. Judges don't write the laws, they just interpret the ones that exist.

JD is arguing that judges (and by extension, the law, and by extension the fundamental concept of the rule of law) don't apply to him and Trump. It's literally an argument for monarchy.

JD Vance and Trump are doing a power grab to ignore checks and balances that are very basic elementary school level things that their supporters are going to suddenly pretend aren't a thing

This is the vice president overlooking the 'check and balance' for the executive branch of government defined in the Constitution.