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I'll be announcing that next week, reciprocal trade so that we're treated evenly with other countries." ... We don't want any more, any less."
Earlier, while addressing a press briefing with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday, Trump said ... He said Under the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, other countries will have two choices -- they'll get rid of their tariffs on us, or they will pay us hundreds of billions of dollars, and the United States will make an absolute FORTUNE."
In a campaign video, he said Very simply, if you charge us, we charge them."
In his statement, Trump addressed the rationale for these tariffs, saying I think that's the only fair way to do it that way nobody's hurt." ... They charge us, we charge them. It's the same thing, and I seem to be going in that line as opposed to a flat fee tariff."
He said ... Donald Trump said It would really provoke a crisis of sorts, ... The courts don't have, famously — from Federalist 78 — they lack the power of the purse and the sword, right? They don't have an army, and they don't have a huge budget. They have to rely on, sort of, their legitimacy."
Given the context of which [Vance's post] has happened, it seems to be a winking suggestion that maybe ignoring a court order is on the table,
The key point is that the executive would be behaving lawlessly if it did that,
If Congress isn't doing that, there's not a lot that one can do,
Under the rule of law and the Constitution, it is the courts that determine whether some use of the executive power is lawful or not. That is the critical point,
Pildes told NBC News via email 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."
Vance wrote in a post on X, adding The bottom line is that our system is predicated on good faith, but also the rule of law in America means that the government abides by court rulings,
Dan Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University, told NBC News I think the tweet, taken on its own terms, is empty because it refers to the 'legitimate powers' of the executive. And the whole question in these cases is whether the executive is acting legitimately or not,
[Vance] has some cover in that sense,
I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us."
On Saturday, Musk reposted a post on X from a user who wrote A corrupt judge protecting corruption,
The concern is that the vice president’s statement could be taken to suggest that the Executive Branch is prepared to refuse to comply with a court order based on the president’s own view that he has a power that the courts have concluded he does not,
Courts cannot do all of the work,
