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Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

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

This guy is such a dumb dipshit. How do you have “plenary authority” when you are using authority under power delegated by a statute (which you just cited) that contains specific conditions and limitations?? I am guessing he realized how idiotic he sounded the minute it came out of his mouth

Thus far, ICE and CBP in the Chicago region killed an immigrant

Shot a woman 5 times-after allegedly taunting her, saying “Do something, b****”

And shot a priest-who wasn’t remotely a threat-in the head

So when does Governor Pritzker deploy the National Guard to protect citizens from these thugs

#Epstein

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

When that hits, it’s going to be a shock to a lot of people who don’t believe Trump and the Republicans would do anything like this to harm them, even though they have been warned. It doesn’t matter what the media says or Democrats or anyone if they’re not on Fox. Fox is telling them not to worry

The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government-ICE but No Healthcare-Visible - emptywheel No one knows how this shutdown will go. It truly is unlike any shutdown that has gone before. But it will serve to make the reality of Trump's abuse of power visible in a way that has not fully happen...

My post on that.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/01/a...

Shaheen, a retiring Dem Rs are looking to flip on shutdown, says of OMB threats on back pay: “It would be a lot easier to resolve the situation if Russ Vought would stop talking.”

I'm on the record saying that Russ Vought will do things during the shutdown that will make his illegal rescissions visible in the way they otherwise weren't. And boy howdy, threatening to ignore the law on backpay is a great example. [corrected]

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This whole thing is an example of degenerate Trump thinking. Vought had references to the law deleted from OMB shutdown guidance. It's still the law.

Jessica Tarlov: I'm stunned that Republicans want to draw attention to this because... the senators who were part of this investigation are not just random names that he picked off a list, but people who were named in Jack Smith's charging documents for trying to turn over a free and fair election.

This from @jessicatarlov.bsky.social may be the most efficient use of 76 seconds of Fox News airtime I've ever seen.

Reining in Rogue Presidents How ambiguities in the law gave Trump power he could seize—and what a future Congress can do about it.

All of these excesses can be reined in, if not entirely eliminated, by Congress—or at least by a Congress not under Donald Trump’s thumb. All it needs is the wisdom to recognize its own crucial role in creating this problem.

ADF has fought for a long time to keep their donors secret.

YouTube video by Raging Moderates Gov. Pritzker on How to STOP Trump’s New CIVIL WAR

Governor JB Pritzker is on the frontline of Trump’s militarization of American cities.

Here’s how he is fighting back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDIR...

Just a few nights ago an ICE agent shot a woman 5 times under disputed circumstances

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

Trump’s New AG Pick Lobbied for Corporate Giants and Financial Firms Trump’s selection of Pam Bondi also prompted renewed scrutiny of her record as Florida’s former attorney general.

truthout.org/articles/tru...

When Pam Bondi Protected Foreclosure Fraudsters The new attorney general nominee, while serving as AG of Florida, fired the first two prosecutors to investigate the use of false evidence to kick people out of their homes.

prospect.org/justice/2024...

She’d rather run cover for someone who lied to stay out of the military

Blumenthal is a Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran (1970-1976). He did not serve in Vietnam.

Bondi’s personal attack demonstrates exactly the questions that have been raised about her competence: she runs fast and loose with facts.

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no.

Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

Durbin: "In February you made a public claim that the Epstein client list was 'sitting on my desk right now for review.'...Why did you publicly claim to have the Epstein client list waiting for your review and then produce nothing relevant?"

Durbin: "You pushed the FBI to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records...to flag any documents that mention President Trump...Who gave the order to flag any records which included Trump's name?"

Bondi: "I'm not going to discuss anything about that with you."

Pam Bondi REFUSES to answer if the FBI found photographs of Donald Trump with "half-naked women" in their Epstein investigation.

To be clear, the president of the united states does not have “plenary authority” over anything at all. Because we are a democracy and the president is not a king. Full stop.

YouTube video by TabithaSpeaksPolitics Stephen Miller Pretends To Glitch While Giving Away Their Plan!!

👨‍⚖️ #PLENARYAUTHORITY 👨‍⚖️

WTF happened with #StephenMiller and #Plenary Authority for #Trump!?!?

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So Trump has PLENARY AUTHORITY? Stephen Miller slipped up...

Not Stephen Miller accidentally outting the regime in an interview. Let that "plenary authority" claim slip right out and then had to act like the audio cut out.

Sir! We heard you.. and the President does NOT have plenary authority.

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse