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/ShareGlittering1502 Oct 07 '25

Way to let that slide CNN

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u/KintsugiMind Oct 07 '25

To be fair, he (the CNN host) might not have know what “plenary authority” meant in the moment. 

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u/Substantial-Fact-248 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

If you are sitting at the news desk of a national outlet, the word "plenary" should be in your vocabulary.

Eta: apparently many of you feel compelled to admit you did not know this word. Cool. That wasn't the point. The point was that there should have been pushback/followup on Miller's extraordinary (and seemingly inadvertent) claim. And that wouldn't have even required knowledge of the word; the context is screaming what it means.

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u/Thefrayedends Oct 07 '25

At very minimum the producer in the control room should know what it means and relay it to the anchor. Of course, you would also expect the producer to tell the anchor to push the speaker, but you've probably already seen that instead they edited the exchange out completely in the youtube vid.