We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Judges

Vance on judge's ruling that admin must fully fund SNAP:

"The president and the entire administration are working on that, but we’re not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge. We’re going to do it according to what we think we have to do to comply with the law."

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 7, 2025

The Vice President says the president will decide what’s legal and what isn’t. This isn’t the first time he’s said this:

If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.

If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.

Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 9, 2025

Trump is so addled he doesn’t have a clue what any of this means. But Vance knows that they are challenging the entire system by saying they have the authority to ignore orders. It’s happened a time or two in the past but even in the most contentious of times the executive has always deferred to the courts and used the normal process to adjudicate the dispute.

They seem to still believe they must adhere to the Supreme Court so perhaps this has to make it all the way up to the top in order to be resolved. And so far they haven’t had much of a problem with them issuing emergency stays so they really don’t need to do this. Simply ignoring the lower courts is an escalation.