Jack Goldsmith at Executive Functions points out that this appears to be a carefully orchestrated campaign aimed at (a) keeping liberals in panic-mode, (b) keeping the MAGA base happy, and perhaps (c) moving the Overton window so when they do it for real, it won’t inspire as much opposition.
Technically, neither Trump nor Miller actually said the administration was considering suspending habeus corpus, much less by executive order. Both called on friendly “reporters” who asked questions worded to suggest that, and both replied to those questions with ambiguity and plausible deniability. “We’re not planning that, but we’re not NOT planning that. Wink, wink, nudge nudge.”
It's certainly a sign of the worst timeline that we are stuck in, trying to deal with people who think that fundamental rights are merely suggestions that can be rescinded at will if those rights conflict with what they want to do to other people.
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Technically, neither Trump nor Miller actually said the administration was considering suspending habeus corpus, much less by executive order. Both called on friendly “reporters” who asked questions worded to suggest that, and both replied to those questions with ambiguity and plausible deniability. “We’re not planning that, but we’re not NOT planning that. Wink, wink, nudge nudge.”
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