Bill Kristol
Totally disingenuous. Judges get cases challenging the executive for violating constitutional rights or violating the law. (JD often supports such plaintiffs if they're e.g., anti-abortion protesters.) Whether it's a "legitimate" use of executive power is what's being litigated.
JD Vance
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.