Law Schools Slam Vance’s Challenge to Judicial Branch Powers

A group representing law schools railed against statements by “elected officials and administration representatives” that call into question the courts’ authority to review executive actions.

“There can be no disagreement that in a nation under law, that all government officials, without exception, must comply with direct judicial orders,” the Association of American Law Schools, comprised of 175 US law school members, said Tuesday. “To do otherwise is to shatter our historic system of separation of powers and remove the checks and balances the framers so wisely wrote in our Constitution.”

Vice President J.D. Vance, a Yale Law School graduate, ...