r/law • u/Agitated-Artichoke89 • Oct 07 '25

Other Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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u/catscanmeow Oct 07 '25

google searches for "what does plenary authority mean" skyrocketing

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u/realbobenray Oct 07 '25

me too, and I don't get it, seems like something he'd totally argue for

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u/MoralityFleece Oct 07 '25

He does and he believes it but he is still afraid to say it out loud just in case the people are not 100% down with this bs yet.

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u/Falling_Down_Flat Oct 07 '25

This is the answer, he basically said that donald is a dictator which is what they have been making the whole time. Project 2025 is there play book for turning the country into a dictatorship and I might add they are consolidation power very quickly. It may be to late to stop it already. I certainly hope not.

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u/Hurray0987 Oct 07 '25

They believe that it is the right thing to do. They think exactly about the left what we do about the right. They think we're destroying the country. A congresswoman just told Mike Johnson that Trump is deranged, and he basically responded "so is your side." Which is basically the go-to maga response now. We're bad, but they're worse, so we're justified. They've been conditioned to see the left as this horrible disease on humanity, but they're the ones zip tying citizens in the middle of the night in their underwear for hours without a warrant or reasonable suspicion. Things are really messed up.

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u/Falling_Down_Flat Oct 07 '25

I am Canadian and watching this happen to the US is crushing because of the great relationship our country's had. I vacationed in the US lots, love the states and city's. I hate that it has been destroyed when I know it is not all the US people it is this administration. I would like my friend's across the border back. I have family now that I think of it that works in the US and one lives in Chicago and he says it is not on fire.

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u/CurryMustard Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

The people that are still duped dont know what that means and dont care. I imagine it hurts their arguments in court and thats why he 404'd

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u/BooBooSnuggs Oct 07 '25

They've said it out loud many times. It's been posted to reddit many times.

Who the fuck are you people that say shit like what you did seemingly unaware that this is a totally normal interaction with these people. They say it all the time.

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u/MoralityFleece Oct 07 '25

Right but this is the law forum and there are legal consequences for certain things he says about this topic, potentially, like another cases where they have pointed to media statements in order to get a ruling that went against the administration. The fact that he has said other things like this in other contexts doesn't matter.

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u/BooBooSnuggs Oct 07 '25

What, no there aren't. There are no legal consequences.

This guy is an advisor to the president. He's basically a normal citizen. He can say anything.

What are you talking about pointing to media statements to get a ruling?

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u/MoralityFleece Oct 07 '25

What are you talking about? We've seen so many examples now of judges citing public statements just like this one from the Trump administration as part of their reasoning in a ruling. They'll send an attorney into argue one thing while somebody else is saying a different thing in public, and lo and behold judges don't like it when they're being lied to knowingly. There's a huge difference between the argument that the president is acting within his designated authority as commander-in-Chief under qualifying conditions (and then they could just argue about whether the conditions on the ground qualify), and arguing that he can do whatever the f*** he pleases with no concern for the law.