Posted on 05/10/2025 1:36:02 AM PDT by fluorescence
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday that the Trump administration is "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus, the right of a person to challenge their detention in court.
If carried out by President Donald Trump, the suspension of habeas corpus would be a dramatic escalation of his administration's immigration policy by significantly curtailing a right enshrined in the Constitution.
"First, you know, President Trump has talked about potentially suspending habeas corpus to take care of the illegal immigration problem. When could we see that happen in the future?" a reporter asked Miller as he spoke outside the White House.
"The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in time of invasion," Miller answered.
"So, it's an option we're actively looking at," he continued.
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Miller said that the administration's decision would come down to whether the "courts do the right thing or not."
But legal experts say the issue is not as cut and dried as Miller suggests, and that a president cannot suspend habeas corpus without authorization from Congress.
"Miller also doesn't deign to mention that the near-universal consensus is that only Congress can suspend habeas corpus -- and that unilateral suspensions by the President are per se unconstitutional," Georgetown University Law Center professor Steve Vladeck writes in his Substack blog.
"He's suggesting that the administration would (unlawfully) suspend habeas corpus if (but apparently only if) it disagrees with how courts rule in these cases. In other words, it's not the judicial review itself that's imperiling national security; it's the possibility that the government might lose. That's not, and has never been, a viable argument for suspending habeas corpus," he writes.
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The only thing you’ve not done is stomp your feet.
Serious is when you provide some primary sources to back up statements represented as fact.
So back up your claim I am open border and pro illegal.
You appear to be angry because other posters don’t see things the way you do. Fine - you’re not alone.
But please educate yourself about habeas corpus.
And try not to rely on gen ai; read a little bit on the subject yourself.
You can do it! Now get to work at it!
Your support for Woodpusher is the proof. His every AI-generated post is nothing more than the pro open-borders screed, and you jumped right on board.
Thats on you. Wear it and own it. Stop being a coward.
LOL!
Get to work on the assignment I gave you.
What a pathetic attempt at deflection.
Do try and keep up although I have little faith you can.
Now go make me a sammich...
LOL! Get back to studying!
I will help you be a better researcher. For example, representing as fact that Woodpusher was using Gen AI for his responses.
Git ‘along now!
For example, representing as fact that Woodpusher was using Gen AI for his responses.
I found it a rather amusing concept, seeing as how my record of detailed responses goes back far before Gen AI came about. AI may feed you whatever happens to be on the internet.
FWIW, I support removing all the illegal aliens. Here is the government progress report for 2025:
https://www.ice.gov/statistics
The following dashboards present for the first time information and trends in arrests, detentions, removals and alternatives to detention as of December 31, 2024.
No published statistics so far this year.
Yes. I suspect it is ignorance and an unwillingness to engage in the merits. Typical.
Ya just can’t help but defend the guy.
Like I said, all I need to know about you.
People like you aren’t nearly as smart or as clever as you pretend to be.
Defend on...but I hate to disappoint ya but the borders are closed, and those people are going back...freely or kicking and screaming. Either way, time for you to accept that.
Re: 148 - I do care that you did some jackassin’ that he uses Gen AI to compose his posts - and then can’t back it up.
That speaks to your talking claims you simply can’t back up.
But because you can’t argue the point, you make unsubstantiated claims.
So get back to work!
It looks like you are giving ChatGPT a serious workout.
I have never used ChatGPT. However, you seem to know all about it.
It’s my job to know about it you dumb ass. That is how I spotted your use of it so easily.
Generative AI is here. And you know full well what it does, that much is clear.
Wait, maybe you use GROK...or Perplexity...or Gemini...or copilot
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