Republican strategist Scott Jennings got into a heated exchange with former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson and CNN host Abby Phillip on Monday. Jennings was defending Vice President J.D. Vance’s statements on lawfare being committed by anti-constitutional activist liberal judges. He was right because these so-called “judges” cannot usurp the authority granted to President Trump by the US Constitution. The Democrats and their pet judges are waging a war in support of wasteful and fraudulent abuse of taxpayer money.
Imagine a political party so corrupt they need to convince their people that accountability is illegal. And recent memory dictates that the judges are in on it too.
Jennings said:
“I think there’s a difference between saying whether you‘re complying with the law, and then you have these individual district court judges setting effectively broad federal policy that is specifically reserved for the President of the United States. I think we do have a constitutional crisis, and it’s being caused by these judges. They’re not here to tell us, they’re not here to tell us how to spend the money. They’re not here to set broad federal policy. That is the president’s job as elected by the people. These judges are supposed to be settling discrete, specific matters, not policy setting. I think Vance is right, I think Trump has a point. And these judges want nothing more than to continue the lawfare against…”
Abby Phillip countered:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“I don’t think anybody is going to be surprised to hear that you think Trump is doing this. However, just on a real important technical point here, one of the disputes, one of the main disputes is whether the executive branch can just decide not to spend money that another co-equal branch has said ought to be spent. So it’s not just about forcing the federal government to spend money. It’s saying Congress said, ‘You need to spend this money this way.’ And the executive branch saying, ‘No, I don’t feel like it.’ And the courts say ‘You have to.’”
Jennings:
“My answer to that simply is it is the executive branch’s job to figure out how to spend money once it is appropriated by Congress, and sometimes they spend money that’s not been appropriated, but the correct political control is between the executive and the Congress, not some random federal judge.”
Gretchen Carlson said:
“Do you think that J.D. Vance’s tweet is only about these district judges? This is a slippery slope because they’re going to move on to what the next ruling is. They’re setting the stage so that they can say that the executive branch has control now over the judicial branch. They’re setting the stage, and for people who think, for people who think that President Trump has not planned all of this, he pushes the envelope constantly. There was January 6th. He has a myriad of people out there that would support the executive branch being able to rule over the judicial branch, because there have been no repercussions, and when there are not consequences and when there are not repercussions, you get away with it.”
Jennigs replied:
“I get it, you want individual federal judges who hate Donald Trump to tie him up for the next four years. If you want a big policy question decided, let the Supreme Court do it. But in the interim, the executive has to be allowed to govern.”
