On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance laid out his version of the relationship between the presidency and the courts. “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” he wrote, in a post on X.

Mr. Vance’s post was “as wrong as it is reckless,” responded 17 attorneys general from 17 states in a joint statement. “No one is above the law.”

For years, economists have been developing a system of “true cost accounting” based on the growing body of evidence about the environmental damage caused by different types of agriculture. Now, emerging research aims to translate this damage to the planet into dollar figures.

Was Mr. Vance demanding that presidents be allowed to make their own rules, regardless of what the courts say? Everything depends on what he meant by the word “legitimate.” Who gets to decide the limit of the executive’s power?

The Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted for more than 200 years,ijogo cassino offers a clear answer: judges.

“The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases arising under this Constitution,” says the Constitution itself, in Article III, which establishes the federal court system and its powers.

And that is exactly what the federal judiciary is trying to do now.

Federal judges have issued preliminary orders that block some of the administration’s most aggressive assertions of power: a freeze on as much as $3 trillion in federal spending, the termination of the 14th Amendment’s guarantee to birthright citizenship, the firing of civil servants before the end of their statutorily defined terms, the forced transfer of trans women in prison to men’s facilities and the turnover of sensitive data and systems to a newly minted quasi-agency headed by Elon Musk. More than 60 lawsuits have been filed against the second Trump administration — more than two for each day that the president has been in office.

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