Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

[Nevilledog]

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller-plenary-authority

Last week, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud on national TV, revealing in one moment just how much power Donald Trump is trying to seize for himself.

Miller was doing a CNN hit on October 6, after a Trump-appointed judge, Karin Immergut, blocked the administration from deploying the Oregon National Guard to Portland. Miller was humming along nicely here with his usual combination of petulance and arrogance when he was asked a simple question.

“You’ve called the district judge’s ruling blocking the deployment of the National Guard in Oregon ‘legal insurrection.’ Does the administration still plan to abide by that ruling?”

Miller was hyped to show off his big brain with a slick answer, but things went awry nearly immediately.

After blathering a bit about how the administration already filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit and how it won at the Ninth Circuit over the deployment of troops in California, Miller says this: “Under Title 10 of the US Code, the president has plenary authority… ”

And then he stopped talking. And stopped moving, apparently in the hope CNN would just think his video froze, rather than that he was sitting there trying to unring the bell he just clanged live on television.

*snip*

[Quanta]

1. I don't think it was a gaffe

I think he achieved exactly what he planned.

[Torchlight]

2. Accomplished actors can pull off fantastic "oh shit!" moments.

Miller's not an accomplished actor. I think the blue screen of death look in his eyes spoke volumes more (and with great clarity) than his word salad would ever hope to achieve.