Vice President JD Vance expressed a view on executive power on Sunday that alarmed politicians and legal experts. “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.

Experts and officials expressed alarm on Sunday after Vice President JD Vance suggested federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the White House ’s “legitimate power.” The controversy began on Sunday morning, when Vance tweeted his views on executive power.

Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts.

Facing a string of judicial rulings in recent days that have struck down or at least put on hold a variety of efforts by the Trump administration that appeared to overstep its executive authority, both Vice President JD Vance and billionaire oligarch Elon Musk on Sunday took aim at the power of judges by saying their powers—despite being the