Inside the White House, #StephenMiller, the influential deputy chief of staff, saw an opening for an idea he had raised previously: What if #Trump simply claimed the #power to suspend #HabeasCorpus?
Then the locked-up immigrants would be blocked from receiving hearings or even from seeking court orders to prevent their removal from the country. This was an opportunity for Trump to both speed up deportations, & to assert vastly expanded power over a legal system that was getting in his way.
Suspending #HabeasCorpus was one of two radical ideas #StephenMiller had been pushing that alarmed Mr. Scharf. The other was invoking the #InsurrectionAct to deploy the #military to enforce the #law on #US streets as #protests grew against #deportation sweeps.
Scharf wrote confidential memos to Wiles on both topics….
[article is long, but I recommend reading it]
#Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutivePower #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration
