William Lindsey May 13, 2025

"Despite whatever is rattling around [Stephen] Miller's febrile cabeza, habeas corpus is not a revocable privilege. It is a right guaranteed to everyone incarcerated. In calling it a 'privilege' that 'could be suspended' to suit the whims of his boss, Miller proves himself to be a traitor not only to the American idea, but also to the freaking Magna Carta (!),"

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64745130/stephen-miller-trump-habeas-corpus/

The White House Just Casually Floated a Move That Would Be Traitorous to the Very Idea of America

Despite what Trump advisor Stephen Miller may believe, habeas corpus is a core legal right—not a revocable privilege. 

Esquire
Show threadWilliam Lindsey May 13, 2025

"the 39th clause of which states, 'No free man shall be seized or imprisoned...except by the lawful judgment of his equals and by the law of the land.' Miller is proposing to reverse all English-speaking jurisprudence since 1215. I think if you find yourself on the wrong side of human rights from John Lackland, it's time for us to be quite done with you."

#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey May 13, 2025

"In a legal filing defending Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (of 'Alien and Sedition Acts' notoriety) to send people to El Salvador’s notoriously brutal prison camp, government attorneys argued something astonishing: The president has 'inherent' authority to deport anyone, anywhere, at any time—bypassing any limit imposed by Congress and beyond the reach of the courts."

~ Andy Craig

#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants #AlienEnemiesAct #Nazis
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-effort-to-become-the-supreme

Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher

His lawless view of his sovereign powers was articulated by Carl Schmitt

The UnPopulist
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"Although a Trump-appointed judge in Texas has for now blocked the use of this act, using it isn’t even necessary, in this view, since this power stemmed from Article II of the Constitution.

However, there is nothing in the Constitution that sees executive power as a kind of ultimate sovereignty."

#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants #AlienEnemiesAct #Nazis #Constitution
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May 13, 2025 at 7:30pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey May 13, 2025

"This claim, along with similar ones being advanced on issues ranging from birthright citizenship to retaliation against law firms, signals something profoundly disturbing: an embrace of boundless, absolute, unchecked power."

#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants #AlienEnemiesAct #Nazis #Constitution
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey May 13, 2025

"The notion is completely foreign to American constitutional law and the political philosophy on which the country was founded, which put the defense of individual rights at the center of its project and firm limits on an executive’s power to abrogate them. Its origins can be found, ironically enough, in the ideology of past 'enemy aliens.'”

#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants #AlienEnemiesAct #Nazis #Constitution
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey May 13, 2025

"There’s a deadly serious set of ideas behind it, revealing the disturbingly widespread influence of Carl Schmitt, a German jurist and political philosopher who became a prominent propagandist during the early years of the Nazi regime."

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Show threadf*cking b*tch clubMay 13, 2025

@wdlindsy I think they’re aiming to declare soon “we have the divine right of kings, while the rest of you have no more rights than we say you do.”

Of course it’s all nonsense, but unless and until MAGA’s turn against him….we’re in a heap of trouble.