Vance has been the most explicit about it. In 2021, Vance said Trump in his second term should fire “every civil servant in the administrative state” and, “whe

Vance has been the most explicit about it. In 2021, Vance said Trump in his second term should fire “every civil servant in the administrative state” and, “when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’” (This refers to an apparently apocryphal quote from the country’s seventh president, who declined to enforce a Supreme Court ruling.) https://otter.ai/u/hhDAbcaDvHzdm-oO-C9_S4Ip8FQ https://otter.ai/u/hhDAbcaDvHzdm-oO-C9_S4Ip8FQ Vance was asked last year if he was explicitly saying the president should defy such an order, and he told Politico, “Yup.” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/15/mr-maga-goes-to-washington-00147054 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/15/mr-maga-go... In 2022, Vance suggested a president could disregard an “illegitimate ruling” in which the Supreme Court would say a president can’t fire a military general. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-vance-defends-trump-claims-invoking-jean-carroll/story?id=106925954 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-vance-defends-trump-claim... As for trump, there's the actions where he's violating court orders already https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277213/gov.uscourts.dcd.277213.19.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277...