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Meanwhile, the dung beetle says the administration is considering suspending habeas corpus in the immigration cases. Habeas is in the Constitution, so the dung beetle is saying the administration is considering suspending the Constitution.
>>>White House deputy chief of staff
Stephen Miller said Friday that President Trump and his team are “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus as part of the administration’s immigration crackdown.<<<
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5292820-white-house-miller-immigration-crackdown/
Once again, I can't figure out if he's so F'g stupid that he doesn't know how wrong he is, or if he knows but he's just saying it anyway. My money is on the former.
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For whatever reason, the administration chose to take a highly aggressive and questionable position by invoking the AEA. Things are not going well in court so the administration is flailing about trying to find a "Super Power"
that will get them out of this mess they created.
The NY Times ran an interesting article about the Dung Beetle's efforts to talk Trump into suspending habeas corpus. Fortunately, in contrast to the Dung Beetle, Mr Scharf has a brain:
>>>Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch-conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed by Stephen Miller, the powerful adviser driving President Trump’s deportation campaign.
Dated April 29, 2025, and stamped “confidential,”
the memo was careful and lawyerly but amounted to a warning against end-running the rule of law. The subject line read: “THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.”
Habeas corpus — the centuries-old right to force the government to justify, before a judge, why it has locked a person up — is enshrined in Article I of the Constitution. Mr. Scharf’s memo, in its unassuming way, was a blinking red warning light. The second Trump White House was deliberating an explosive new claim of presidential power: the suspension of habeas rights for unauthorized immigrants. . .
In early April last year, the Supreme Court had
allowed the administration to continue its use of the Alien Enemies Act as the basis for deporting Venezuelans who were in the United States illegally. But the justices also ruled that the migrants were entitled to challenge their deportations in court before being expelled. The detainees, the court held, could file lawsuits citing habeas corpus to challenge the basis for their removal, substantially slowing the administration’s deportation drive.
Inside the White House, Mr. Miller, the influential deputy chief of staff, saw an opening for an idea he had raised previously: What if Mr. Trump simply claimed the power to suspend habeas corpus?<<<
The Dung Beetle was also pushing Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act:
>>>Suspending habeas corpus was one of two radical ideas Mr. Miller had been pushing that alarmed Mr. Scharf.
The other was invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military to enforce the law on American streets as protests grew against deportation sweeps.
Mr. Scharf wrote confidential memos to Ms. Wiles on both topics, setting out in a low-key way why taking either step would shatter historical norms and likely precipitate hazardous legal and constitutional battles.<<<
Trump seemingly wants to do some of the exact things that led to the American Revolution. From the Declaration of Independence:
>>>[The King of Great Britain] has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. . . .
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. . . .
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. . .
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: <<<
