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.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    403·
    22 hours 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?

    • pahlimur@lemmy.world
      10·
      16 hours ago

      People calling you a nazi sympathizer don’t know that most people who actively participated as members of the German nazi party were ‘normal’ people. They lived normal lives, followed the law, and existed in normal society. In reality, most people supporting our current nazi problems will need to be deprogrammed and forcibly pulled back into an accepting society. Its what happened in Germany, not many nazis were charged with crimes.

      • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        13 hours ago

        Similar shit happened in Indonesia after the genocide. People had to go back to being neighbours with somewhat typical people who were former state sanctioned serial killers and enablers. Germany tried to deprogram the youth in the '50s, but yeah. Didn’t stick, for various reasons. Harsh reality.

        Still, no society has recovered from fascist or similar regimes without at least some targeted pruning of the tree of life. Putin SHOULD obsess about what happened to Gaddafi and the like. Society has to remember or, well, here we are again.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        12·
        16 hours ago

        Are you agreeing with them? If not, It’s really just the two weirdos ITT who cannot fathom the idea that bad people are still people.

      • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
        181·
        18 hours 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!

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        251·
        20 hours 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.

          • Fusselwurm@feddit.org
            122·
            18 hours ago

            A Nazi is a normal human being with a set of particularly bad convictions.

            But same as nobody is born a Nazi, nobody needs to die a Nazi.

            This is fundamentally different from cockroaches, who are all cockroach from conception to death.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
      367·
      22 hours 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.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        291·
        20 hours ago

        RED ALERT

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

      • SpookyLights@lemmy.ca
        161·
        21 hours ago

        Yeah? Name one leftist who thinks the Nazis only crime was wearing the wrong uniform. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        131·
        22 hours 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.