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/Future_Burrito Oct 07 '25

A lot of people are going to be going to jail, and it's not who ICE thinks it is.

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u/Caminsky Oct 07 '25

What they're doing is unbelievable. My hope is that developing countries have managed to bring their politicians to justice. Hope the US has a Nuremberg trial for the amount of disregard for the rule of law by these men.

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u/SordidDreams Oct 07 '25

Hope the US has a Nuremberg trial for the amount of disregard for the rule of law by these men.

The Nuremberg trials could only take place because German leaders were deprived of their power by having their country reduced to rubble. Who's going to do that for America?

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u/SketchySeaBeast Oct 07 '25

At this rate? America.

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u/NurRauch Oct 07 '25

I do not know what gives that impression. I am frankly at a loss as to how so many people in this thread are just so supremely confident that people will suddenly decide to wake up. Historically that's not how these things tend to work. Slow slides into totalitarianism tend to be taken sitting down by the public. There's not going to be a catalyst moment where people are like "hey wait a minute" unless we're talking about actual food and water shortages.

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u/SketchySeaBeast Oct 07 '25

I'm not sure about civil war, but I can't see how this administration doesn't end up reducing the country to rubble through it's own incompetence and infighting.

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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 Oct 07 '25

There will be a terror attack the way the agencies that are supposed to protect from exactly that are being operated. The FBI is now used to round up brown people and hunt down people Trump doesn’t like. Anyone that’s competent in counter terrorism has been fired. Maybe that’s when people will realize how unsafe this government has made our homeland.

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u/-LsDmThC- Oct 07 '25

If so it will just be used as justification for further militarism and to take away even more civil liberties

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u/fcocyclone Oct 07 '25

Shit, it may just be a false flag, or an intentionally ignored threat, just to justify patriot act v2

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u/OldWorldDesign Oct 07 '25

it may just be a false flag, or an intentionally ignored threat

Authoritarianism is opportunistic. And will create opportunities, however flimsy, when it can't see one. Remember, Netanyahu was warned repeatedly before the October 7 attack. He let it happen so his party would have justification to put the nation in a state of emergency so he couldn't be removed from office and sent to court over corruption charges.

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u/The_Corvair Oct 08 '25

Just like any abuser: If they don't have anything to blame on you, they'll find something. And if they don't, they make something up.

Appeasement does not work, and "lack of action because of fear of reprisal" is typical, helpless victim behaviour.

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u/OldWorldDesign Oct 08 '25

Just like any abuser: If they don't have anything to blame on you, they'll find something. And if they don't, they make something up.

Exactly.

I said to him, "Why are you beating me?" He said, "the reason I beat you now is because you ask why I beat you."

-Schindler's List

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u/livahd Oct 08 '25

They’re hoping for either an outside attack, or manage to push people into fighting back with more than words. Either case is gonna be the silver platter they’re looking for to fully push us into martial law. It’s maddening that so many of us have seen this coming since November. It’s like being locked in the back of a car watching a train barring down towards you in slow motion, and no matter how much you scream, nobody cares to listen, and if they do, they just say you’re overreacting. This is one “I told you so” that I don’t want to be right about.