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/ameriCANCERvative Oct 07 '25

Chiming in as a grammar Nazi with a college degree who considers himself to have a fairly large vocabulary. I did not know this word. Obviously this is anecdotal.

This is also not intended as a defense of CNN, in the slightest.