Stephen Miller ‘Plenary Authority’ Remark Sparks Controversy
time.com
The Trump aide sparked suspicion when he stopped speaking after he mentioned the President’s “plenary authority,” though CNN blamed a technical issue.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/533816

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CNN asked Miller whether the Trump Administration will abide by a district judge’s order blocking the Guard’s deployment in Oregon. “Well, the Administration filed an appeal this morning with the Ninth Circuit,” Miller began. “I would note the Administration won an identical case in the Ninth Circuit just a few months ago with respect to the federalizing of the California National Guard.”

Then, Miller said: “Under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, the President has plenary authority, has—” before making an abrupt stop. Miller blinked several times, with anchor Boris Sanchez calling out his name, though he still did not respond.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenary_power

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.

  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    The executive is a co-equal branch of government. We don’t do kings here. We kill kings.

    We also kill Nazis. Per long tradition. We don’t debate them. We don’t platform them. Nazis are guilt free kills. Don’t even count as human.

    • Ging@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      We have never killed kings here. We also stayed out of Nazi affairs for many years. The sentiment is nice, but more than misleading. You got weird history books anon

    • Sideshow_B00b@lemmy.zip
      2·
      2 months ago

      But… but… ”zey vere just folloving orders”

      Punch-a-nazi would be a great substitute for whack-a-mole BTW

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Don’t even count as human.

      … People can be evil (and even deserve execution) without dehumanizing them. You know, the exact thing we hate them for doing?

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          A lazy and false statement that even the slightest of thought rips into a million little pieces. You’re advocating for conditional dehumanization. Something that actually should provoke reflection.

        • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
          2·
          2 months ago

          Nazis are human garbage.

          As humans, they have human rights… But they also should be punished for their violations of human rights. The law, as it currently stands, is not fulfilling its purpose of punishing bad actions. Thus, it is up to us to punish them.

          Punch a Nazi today!

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 months ago

        From my interactions with leftists, they think that the Nazis’ only crime was wearing the wrong uniform. The oppression, tyranny and murder? Totally okay. They were just wearing the wrong symbols while they did it.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          I have no clue what you’re talking about but I’m sick of people grouping others together and then raging about groupthink that doesn’t even necessarily exist.

          I group together those espousing a particular sentiment and that makes sense to me. They told me what they believe.

          It’s another totally pointless shitty waste of time to say “-ists are all [horrible thing]!!”

          Fuck that shit.

        • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          RED ALERT

          YOU HAVE JUST MADE A PROFOUNDLY STUPID COMMENT AND SHOULD BE RIDICULED THEN IGNORED

          • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
            0·
            2 months ago

            The comment at the top of this thread that encouraged the exact same kind of dehumanization and murder that the Nazis based their movement on? Can you not read?

            • obre@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 months ago

              The Nazis based their movement on the belief that it’s OK to kill nazis…?

      • cygnus@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 months ago

        Literally never killed a king in their history. The closest they got was killing aboriginal chieftains. Muricans just got salty because the King of England refused to let them colonize the native tribes in the great lakes region (which the crown had declared a self-governing protectorate). Americans declared a revolution and cloaked it in jingoistic hoopla about liberty. They also tried (and failed) to enlist Quebec to join them.

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 months ago

          Muricans just got salty because the King of England refused to let them colonize the native tribes in the great lakes region (which the crown had declared a self-governing protectorate).

          Wait wait wait. The Brits were the good guys (in this one, very specific, instance)?

          • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 months ago

            Not the only time. Another example is the West Africa Squadron, where a small part of the British Navy tried to block all slave traffic coming out of West Africa.

            The UK has done some insanely horrific things, but it does have some legitimate bright spots in there.

          • cygnus@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 months ago

            Broken clock, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763

            [Historians] have argued that colonial resentment of the proclamation contributed to the growing divide between the colonies and the mother country. Some historians say that even though the boundary was pushed west in subsequent treaties, the British government refused to permit new colonial settlements for fear of instigating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators.

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      I know that Americans will push back eventually, and I’vegot faith but, but the rest of the world is watching and wondering why you haven’t yet.

      • voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 months ago

        We are pushing back, it’s just the US is far more spread out then European countries and protests are purposely not being covered in mainstream media. Not to say we couldn’t be better or doing more.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Rest of the world: Why haven’t you started the bloodiest civil war killing the most Americans of any conflict ever since the last one?

        Americans:

    • verdi@feddit.org
      0·
      2 months ago

      That’s the story you’ve been told, it is in fact false. You save and help Nazis flee prosecution and the only kings you ever killed were the original inhabitants of America that you genocided in your manifest destiny.

      No amount of chest thumping is going to erase the fact you’re already living in the 4th reich and the best you can do about it is shoot some random blogger in the neck. And then you have the gall to ridicule the French…

      edit: Like someone mentioned below, the only king you killed was MLK.