When I wrote about how the Hegseth hearings went, I said that it was an unfortunate harbinger of what would happen with Trump’s other unacceptable Cabinet choices. Sadly, I was correct. We watch as Kennedy, Gabbard, and Patel ooze their way through the Senate in an “Emperor’s New Clothes” production that would make Hans Christian Anderson green with envy.

And now our Vice President is talking about how the judiciary cannot override the legitimate power of the executive. He is correct. However, it is their role to determine what the executive can and cannot do legitimately. They have the same role with laws passed by Congress.

If the Executive Branch can choose to ignore the courts, as Andrew Jackson tried to do in the 1830s, we have a bigger problem than determining who is the head of the Kennedy Center. The problem invites a level of a constitutional crisis unlike any we have seen since the Civil War. What should worry us all is that Trump and Vance are fine with that. After all, they have Hegseth running the Pentagon.