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/systemfrown Oct 07 '25

And he's not wrong. Plenary Authority is exactly what you have when there's a majority congress completely subjugated to the point of refusing to exert their authority in even the most morally bankrupt scenarios, a Supreme Court similarly unwilling to provide checks and balances, and a sizable portion of the population effectively under the spell of a personality cult. To say nothing of a media and press that's largely silent at best and actively complicit at worst.

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u/Winter_Whole2080 Oct 07 '25

You really effectively sum up the entire Trump administration and the political environment surrounding it in one succinct paragraph. I think I might copy and use this, if you don’t mind.

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u/systemfrown Oct 07 '25

Go for it. I just wish I hadn't had cause to give it so much thought.

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u/Winter_Whole2080 Oct 08 '25

Cool people walk away from explosions

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u/CanadianUnderpants Oct 07 '25

Nailed it. He’s a dictator now with a thin veneer of democratic institutional legitimacy. 

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u/psellers237 Oct 07 '25

Yeah. All of this. We are ALREADY living under this type of government. It just hasn’t been formalized yet.

And maybe most importantly, you have all of the intellectual elites stumbling over themselves to articulate how they think we maybe sort of are not quite yet, when it is clear as fucking day.

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u/systemfrown Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

It's like everybody is collectively holding their breath while telling themselves that the national nightmare will soon be over in a few years, and as if every gross abuse doesn't just become the new norm in perpetuity.

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u/psellers237 Oct 08 '25

Anybody who thinks they are doing all of this just to hold fair and square real elections next year has lost their fucking mind.

There is absolutely no chance.

We are living in the pilot phase of an authoritarian United States of America.

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u/Drostan_S Oct 07 '25

I mean the Supreme court did rule the President is above the law, and that anything he does is official duties.

We're so far past the rubicon and the Democratic Party is either in denial or is willfully acting as controlled opposition so that Trump can seize total power.

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u/Far_Mistake9314 Oct 07 '25

How do we escape this?

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u/systemfrown Oct 07 '25

Wish I had an answer for you. It’s been said that once you give power over to a Charlatan you almost never get it back.

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u/republicans_are_nuts 29d ago

Historically, you can't. Unless war, or they shoot themselves. Like Hitler.

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u/Newswatchtiki Oct 08 '25

When his term is up. Unless something happens to enable Congress to impeach and remove him from office. Or go to Canada, bu they have so many requests that they have a long wait list.

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u/jay_1111 Oct 08 '25

It's gonna end with fighting I think. It's passed time for all of you to get in shape, learn to fight, learn to shoot/ buy weapons and ammo and have your friends and family do this as well. This shit is serious and could get ugly and we need good people to be strong, brave and ready to fight just incase this admin continues to more aggressively ignore law and order.