Vice President JD Vance said Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was wrong when he said the judicial branch should “check the excesses” of the executive branch.

Vance made his comments in a podcast interview with Ross Douthat of the New York Times.

Roberts said the judiciary’s role is to “decide cases but, in the course of that, check the excesses of Congress or of the executive and that does require a degree of independence.”

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