Sen. John Fetterman dismissed some of the concerns raised by his Democratic colleagues about President Donald Trump creating a ‘constitutional crisis’ by refusing to obey court orders trying to stop his agenda.
‘There isn’t a constitutional crisis,’ he told reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
Democrats were alarmed after Vice President JD Vance criticized judges for ruling against President Trump’s executive actions, arguing they did not have a right to do so.
‘If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,’ Vance wrote on social media. ‘If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal.’
Trump agreed, telling reporters on Air Force One it was wrong for judges to try to stop him from trying to root out fraud and abuse from the government.
‘The day you’re not allowed to look for theft and fraud etcetera, then we don’t have much of a country,’ he said in response to a question from DailyMail.com. ‘No judge should be allowed to make that kind of decision. It’s a disgrace.’
But Fetterman argued it was normal for judges to try to block presidential actions.
“When it was Joe Biden, you have a conservative judge to jam it up on him, and now we have liberal judges that are going to stop these things,’ he said.
John Fetterman dismisses Democratic fears of a ‘constitutional crisis’
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol i
Fetterman dismissed Democrat fears as ‘just a lot of noise.
‘That’s how the process works,’ he said.
Trump has enabled billionaire Elon Musk to create a Department of Government efficiency to go through the federal government and cut useless programs and contracts as well as root out fraud and abuse.
Several federal judges. however, have responded to Democratic-led lawsuits trying to block his efforts with injunctions that halted his efforts.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, accompanied by his son X Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office
U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) attends an event where President Donald Trump signs the Laken Riley Act,
Democrats raised fears that Trump would act despite judicial rulings, but the president reassured the press the he would abide by the law.
The White House dismissed media concerns about Trump’s actions as ‘fearmongering’ and accused the judges issuing injunctions as ‘judicial activists.’
‘The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch, where district court judges in liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump’s basic executive authority,’ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
