Vice President JD Vance will attend an AI summit in Paris, a French official said anonymously. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
"JD Vance is saying the quiet part out loud: the Trump administration intends to break the law. America is a nation of laws. The courts make sure we follow the laws. The VP doesn’t control the courts, and the President cannot ignore the Constitution. No one is above the law," Pritzker said.
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Pete Buttigieg, former Transportation secretary and a 2020 presidential candidate, said the vice president does not decide what is legal.
"In America, decisions about what is legal and illegal are made by courts of law. Not by the Vice President," Buttigieg said.
David Hogg speaks onstage during the Fast Company Innovation Festival on Sept. 17, 2024, in New York City. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Fast Company)
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the first-term senator whom Trump nicknamed "Schifty Schiff" on the campaign trail, said Vance’s comment "puts us on a dangerous path to lawlessness."
"JD, we both went to law school. But we don’t have to be lawyers to know that ignoring court decisions we don’t like puts us on a dangerous path to lawlessness. We just have to swear an oath to the constitution. And mean it," Sen. Adam Schiff, D-CA, responded.
Some conservatives fired back at the onslaught of comments. Columnist Kurt Schlichter jumped into the conversation, implying Schiff is a bad lawyer.
Jed Rubenfeld, a Yale Law School professor, lawyer and constitutional scholar, said he agreed with Vance that judges cannot "constitutionally interfere."
"JD is correct about this, and his examples are exactly right," Rubenfeld said. "Where the Executive has sole and plenary power under the Constitution – as in commanding military operations or exercising prosecutorial discretion – judges cannot constitutionally interfere."
President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Nov. 13, 2024. (AP)
More X users, who joined the debate, said Vance and his supporters' comments are ironic. AJ Delgado, a self-described "MAGA original but now proudly anti-Trump," said those attacking Vance lacked principle.
"Weren't you all cheering when a federal judge halted Biden's student loan forgiveness? You have ZERO principles," she wrote on X.
When the Supreme Court ruled against President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, he did not waver in his commitment to relieving student debt, vowing "to keep going" despite the court's order.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., during a February 2024 episode of "Pod Save America," gave credit to Biden for finding alternative ways to alleviate student loan debt.
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"Whatever tools he's got, he’s sharpening and building some new tools through his Department of Education. We are now at about just a little shy of 4 million people who have had their student loan debt canceled. Joe Biden is just staying after it," Warren said.
Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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