Stephen Miller
White House Deputy Chief of Staff
9 findings
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- Found liableA civil jury ruled against them.
- Court ruledA judge ruled against them or their policy.
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Admitted or on record 7
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On record
Suspending habeas corpus is “an option we’re actively looking at.”
Habeas corpus is the right to challenge your detention in court. He said a lot depends on “whether the courts do the right thing or not.”
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On record
Asked if the administration would obey a judge’s order blocking troops in Portland, he said the president has “plenary authority.”
Plenary means complete. Cornell’s legal dictionary defines plenary power as “complete and exclusive authority over a particular subject matter,” limited only by the Constitution. Two days earlier, Judge Karin Immergut had ruled the president had no legal or factual basis to send the National Guard into Portland. Miller said the administration had appealed, then cited Title 10 of the US Code, which doesn’t contain the phrase. He stopped mid-sentence and sat silent on camera for about 15 seconds. The anchor called it a technical difficulty and went to a break; after it, Miller didn’t repeat the phrase.
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On record
The government’s own lawyers called Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation an error. Miller said it wasn’t.
He called the Justice Department lawyer who admitted the mistake “a saboteur, a Democrat.” The Supreme Court ordered the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return.
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On record
After Border Patrol agents killed Alex Pretti, he said Pretti “tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.” Video shows a phone in Pretti’s hand.
Border Patrol agents killed Pretti in Minneapolis. Videos verified by NBC show no weapon in his hand; they appear to show an agent taking a holstered pistol from him, which he had a permit to carry, just before he was shot. Three days later Miller said they were “evaluating why the CBP team may not have been following that protocol,” without saying which one.
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On record
“The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.”
He said it after Charlie Kirk’s killing. On Kirk’s show days earlier he had promised to use “every resource we have” at the Justice Department and Homeland Security against what he called “a vast domestic terror movement,” which he said meant organized doxxing campaigns, riots and street violence.
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On record
On Greenland: “Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland.”
Two days after the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, he told CNN “the United States of America is running Venezuela” and that Greenland should be part of the US, while saying there was “no need to even think or talk about” a military operation.
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On record
He set a goal of at least 3,000 ICE arrests a day. ICE had been averaging about 650.
“We want to set a goal for ICE of at least 3,000 arrests a day,” he told Fox News, and said it could go higher. AP put the average from January 20 to May 19 at 656 a day.
Reported and alleged 2
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Reported
Leaked emails show him pushing white nationalist sources to Breitbart.
The SPLC reviewed more than 900 emails from 2015 and 2016. In them he promoted VDARE, American Renaissance and The Camp of the Saints, a novel popular with white nationalists. The White House didn’t respond.
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Reported
His family owns $100,001 to $250,000 in Palantir, an ICE contractor, while he runs the deportation drive.
His own financial disclosure lists the holding, in an account for one of his children, which ethics rules treat as his. The Project on Government Oversight flagged it.