Throughout everything that happened during Donald Trump's first term in office'the abuses of executive power, the impeachments, the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021'the administration never outright defied an order of the court. Now, less than a month into Trump's second term, the president and those around him seem to be talking themselves into crossing that line. The crisis began'where else''on X, where the administration's unelected chancellor Elon Musk began spitefully posting about a court order limiting the ability of his aides to rampage through sensitive payment systems at the Treasury Department. Within the locked, echoing room of the X algorithm, Musk's outrage bounced among far-right influencers and sympathetic members of the legal academy until it found the ear of Vice President J. D. Vance, who posted on Sunday: 'Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.' Vance's post is somewhat tricky. The vice president didn't say outright that...
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