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Axios
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Axios
"Deranged" Milwaukee judge's arrest a warning to others, Bondi says
Attorney General Pam Bondi promised on Friday prosecution for judiciary members who cross the Trump administration. Why it matters: It represents an escalation in the Trump administration's ongoing fight with courts. Driving the news: Bondi's threat comes on the heels of the FBI's Friday arrest of Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, on charges of obstruction of an immigration arrest operation. What they're saying: Bondi said that the Trump administration will target judges who oppose the president's growing immigration crackdown. "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me," Bondi said. "The [judges] are deranged is all I can think of. I think some of these judges think that they are beyond and above the law. They are not, and we are sending a very strong message today ... if you are harboring a fugitive… we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you." Bondi alluded to the Trump administration's willingness to conflict with the Constitution. When Fox News anchor John Roberts said that critics might interpret such prosecutions as "expanding" the powers of Article 1 of the Constitution, Bondi said "nobody is above the law." "If you are destroying evidence, if you are obstructing justice… it will not be tolerated," Bondi said. The Vesting Clause of Article 1 establishes the separation of powers among the three branches of the federal government. The other side: Dugan's arrest shows that "Trump is going to use every weapon at his disposal to enforce his anti-immigrant agenda," Pace University Law Professor Bennett Gershman told Axios. It's a federal crime to obstruct or interfere with immigration officials making arrest, Gershman noted, so Dugan's indictment doesn't set a special precedent. But it does show that "invading courthouses, schools, probably even religious institutions as well to round up immigrants" is on the table. "It shows that immigrants who must appear in court to answer charges, even very minor ones, are sitting ducks for ICE agents, and it likely places many immigrants in a terrible choice between appearing in court, which they are legally required to do, and potentially getting arrested, or not appearing and facing new charges or bench warrant for failure to appear." What we're watching: ICE arrested a New Mexico judge and his wife on suspicion of hiding an alleged Venezuelan gang member in their house on Friday.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Stephen Miller calls out WH press for ignoring Biden's decline, gives 'civics lesson' on presidential power
Stephen Miller gave the White House press corps a "civics lesson" on presidential powers at Thursday's press briefing, to the delight of conservatives. The White House deputy chief of staff for policy responded to a question comparing media concerns about Elon Musk serving as an "unelected bureaucrat" while ignoring former President Joe Biden's declining mental state. "You're tempting me to say very harsh things about some of our media friends," he began. "It is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country." "It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected fail to understand how government works. So I'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson," he continued. White House Outlines Where Doge Savings Could Go After Trump Floats Returning 20% To Americans "A president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation, right? Judges are appointed. Members of Congress are elected at the district or state level. The Constitution, Article II has a clause known as the Vesting Clause. And it says the executive power shall be vested in a president, singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government." Read On The Fox News App Miller went on to describe what he felt was the true threat. "The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime-tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believes [sic] they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believes they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for," he said. Miller went on to call out FBI, Environmental Protection Agency and Justice Department bureaucrats who "don't want to change" despite Americans voting in favor of radical reform. "What President Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people," he concluded. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture Some conservative X users praised Miller's answer as a pushback against biased reporters. Comedian Tim Young wrote, "Stephen Miller torches the media and calls them out on now knowing how the government works: 'I'm glad for an opportunity for a brief civics lesson.' I loved every second of this." "Stephen Miller goes straight Schoolhouse Rock!" Knox County Mayor Glen Jacobs exclaimed. "He's right, you know," National Review senior writer Dan McLaughlin remarked. Mo. Sen. Josh Hawley's communications director, Abigail Jackson, wrote, "I love this clip of @StephenM calling the media out to their faces about their refusal to cover Biden's mental incompetence. So good." "Stephen Miller explains in very clear and concise terms to the ignorant news media how Donald Trump was elected to represent the will of the American people, and that it isn't the place of unelected career bureaucrats to run their own agendas," conservative journalist Ian Miles Cheong article source: Stephen Miller calls out WH press for ignoring Biden's decline, gives 'civics lesson' on presidential power
Fox News
21-02-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Stephen Miller calls out WH press for ignoring Biden's decline, gives 'civics lesson' on presidential power
Stephen Miller gave the White House press corps a "civics lesson" on presidential powers at Thursday's press briefing, to the delight of conservatives. The White House deputy chief of staff for policy responded to a question comparing media concerns about Elon Musk serving as an "unelected bureaucrat" while ignoring former President Joe Biden's declining mental state. "You're tempting me to say very harsh things about some of our media friends," he began. "It is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country." "It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected fail to understand how government works. So I'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson," he continued. "A president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation, right? Judges are appointed. Members of Congress are elected at the district or state level. The Constitution, Article II has a clause known as the Vesting Clause. And it says the executive power shall be vested in a president, singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government." Miller went on to describe what he felt was the true threat. "The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime-tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believes [sic] they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believes they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for," he said. Miller went on to call out FBI, Environmental Protection Agency and Justice Department bureaucrats who "don't want to change" despite Americans voting in favor of radical reform. "What President Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people," he concluded. Some conservative X users praised Miller's answer as a pushback against biased reporters. Comedian Tim Young wrote, "Stephen Miller torches the media and calls them out on now knowing how the government works: 'I'm glad for an opportunity for a brief civics lesson.' I loved every second of this." "Stephen Miller goes straight Schoolhouse Rock!" Knox County Mayor Glen Jacobs exclaimed. "He's right, you know," National Review senior writer Dan McLaughlin remarked. Mo. Sen. Josh Hawley's communications director, Abigail Jackson, wrote, "I love this clip of @StephenM calling the media out to their faces about their refusal to cover Biden's mental incompetence. So good." "Stephen Miller explains in very clear and concise terms to the ignorant news media how Donald Trump was elected to represent the will of the American people, and that it isn't the place of unelected career bureaucrats to run their own agendas," conservative journalist Ian Miles Cheong said.
