This is still theorizing, but the chances are good that the nastiest man in the White House may be getting investigated for something that he may have forgotten about. It’s the little things that trip everyone up. We are rubbing our hands together and chortling with glee because this man, who has managed to slip out of any backlash, may (finally!) have someone looking at him. The man who has set up the rules to terrorize immigrants with his draconian demands may be in the hot seat. My regards to Raw Story:
A veteran Washington reporter said Wednesday he’d “bet everybody’s farm” that Congress will launch an investigation into Stephen Miller by week’s end. Scott MacFarlane made the prediction during a panel on MS NOW. The MeidasTouch Network’s chief Washington correspondent was reacting to New York Times reporting on secret White House memos showing Miller had pushed to suspend habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants. “By the end of the week, Congress launches an investigation that would go right to the White House,” MacFarlane said. “This is not the Department of Justice. This is the White House. This is a report about Stephen Miller, so you could bank on that.”
Wouldn’t that be lovely? Finally starting something to do with one of Trump’s sleazy, racist, ugly, revolting advisors? Ok, maybe we should take ugly out of that description since that’s a little too personal. We should get the popcorn together just in case. But bad jokes aside, Miller being called on the carpet, if it happens, should be very, very eye-opening. We know he’s the one who set the impossible number for immigrants to be deported each day. You could make that number if it were immigrants taken across the entire country per day, but otherwise, impossible. He has to like it like that. If ICE and CBP are terrorizing people, that’s bound to make Miller happy. This is just one thing!
The Times report, bylined by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, revealed that Miller — President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy — proposed stripping undocumented immigrants of the centuries-old right in order to accelerate deportations after courts kept blocking the administration’s efforts. Habeas corpus — older than the United States itself, rooted in the Magna Carta — is the foundational legal right that forces the government to justify, before a judge, why it has locked someone up. Miller told reporters the suspension was “…an option we are actively looking at,” insisting the border qualified as an invasion.
What a bunch of hooey. Immigrants at the southern border are nowhere near an invasion. Wow, that’s Miller really stretching the point. But habeas corpus removed? Yea no. He’s done enough damage without trying to pull that one off. Maybe if he had an achievable number of immigrants to process instead of his insane quantity, then it wouldn’t be so onerous. Then it won’t knock down their lawyers. Remember the lady in Minneapolis who asked to be held in contempt of court so she could get some sleep? That. It showed just how ridiculous Miller’s directions really were. And he probably supported everything that ICE and CBP did. But suspending habeas corpus? Not happening.
The proposal eventually faded — but the Times reported it was never fully abandoned.
It’s still hanging around out there. It’s an ace in the hole for Miller. If he can get that enacted, how many American citizens are going to get deported? How many immigrants doing it the right way through the courts are going to get thrown out? How many people are going to get tossed back because Miller is a raging arse? This is unnerving, and we should fervently hope it doesn’t come back up, because the implications are chilling. But on the other hand, he may, hopefully, be under investigation soon. And someone needs to kill that memo.
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They may be still accomplishing this, in a roundabout way. You may remember when a lot of the immigration judges were fired. Donold wanted to replace them with deportation judges.
I’m assuming they are in the process of doing that.