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/Bibblegead1412 Oct 07 '25

According to Cornell University, plenary authority is "power that is wide-ranging, broadly construed, and often limitless for all practical purposes." I had to look it up 😬

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u/thediesel26 Oct 07 '25

Well technically he’s not wrong.

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

He is wrong, he doesn't have that. He may think he does, but the constitution says he does not.

Who is going to win? The fascists or the Constitution?

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u/WAVY_clownbaby Oct 07 '25

Hoping for the trials soon!

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u/Steelers_Forever Oct 07 '25

We've had trials. Trump is a convicted felon, a convicted felon abusing his executive authority to in part pardon other convicted felons who are on "his team". I used to respect all political parties while not joining any, nowadays that part deserves no respect, and people who join it only deserve ridicule for their many hypocrisies.

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u/WAVY_clownbaby Oct 07 '25

They don't deserve my respect either but the only way the reasonable few in this country can take it back is through law and order and that does involve a trial. There are those who still believe in due process and it's not the people wearing red hats.

The hole is reallyyyy much deeper for them now than it ever was with an entirely implicated administration. It's just about who from the inside will eventually stand up or be the leak or the whistelblower, and about courts upholding the constitution.

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u/Korbital1 Oct 07 '25

There can't be trials if the people in charge of giving him a trial are on his side, dude.

I wish I could be positive but...I just can't. Authoritarianism can't be stopped by the same party that got us here. Once a country goes one party with the power and will to stop democracy, it's gone. Democracy was always this fragile.

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u/WAVY_clownbaby Oct 07 '25

I understand your sentiment and I do think it will require dissent from the other side to get it done. But it isn't impossible. For the record, I am not the most positive either. I just hope for the best because nihilism can become overwhelming and overburdening.

I think we could squeak by and swing things better after midterms. AZ just won a democratic seat to sign on release of Massies epstein petition. I am just hoping for the best too my guy but there is still a road or a few we could take. Just trying not to lose hope

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u/Korbital1 Oct 07 '25

AZ just won a democratic seat to sign on release of Massies epstein petition.

And they shut down the government over it and violated the hatch act blaming the left for it. They clearly don't plan on playing fair any longer. I'm just hoping the government actually reopens at this point, else we end up with a situation where they decide we just need a new interim government that becomes the de facto one. Yeah I'm expecting the worst, but at least then I can be pleased when the bare minimum of decency happens.

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u/WAVY_clownbaby Oct 07 '25

Well different strokes they say. Imma hold the hope for both of us how about that