{"id":17427,"date":"2025-04-18T20:39:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17427"},"modified":"2025-04-18T20:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:39:42","slug":"stephen-miller-egregiously-misrepresented-a-supreme-court-order-while-trump-nodded-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17427","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Miller Egregiously Misrepresented a Supreme Court Order While Trump Nodded Along"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;At the heart of the Trump administration&#8217;s position is a naked assertion of unchecked power. Once the federal government has deported someone to the hellish prison in El Salvador, the Trump administration asserts, there is nothing that anyone\u2014especially not a federal judge\u2014can do about it. What is worse, by the administration&#8217;s own admission, it does not matter whether the deportee was lawfully removed in the first place or not. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor has accurately observed, &#8220;the Government&#8217;s argument\u2026implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.&#8221; The word for what Sotomayor is describing is&nbsp;<em>despotism<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/15\/stephen-miller-egregiously-misrepresented-a-supreme-court-order-while-trump-nodded-along\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/15\/stephen-miller-egregiously-misrepresented-a-supreme-court-order-while-trump-nodded-along<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the heart of the Trump administration&#8217;s position is a naked assertion of unchecked power. Once the federal government has deported someone to the hellish prison in El Salvador, the Trump administration asserts, there is nothing that anyone\u2014especially not a federal judge\u2014can do about it. What is worse, by the administration&#8217;s own admission, it does not matter whether the deportee was lawfully removed in the first place or not. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor has accurately observed, &#8220;the Government&#8217;s argument\u2026implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.&#8221; The word for what Sotomayor is describing is despotism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/15\/stephen-miller-egregiously-misrepresented-a-supreme-court-order-while-trump-nodded-along\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,790,431,660,221,1213,1113,528,170],"class_list":["post-17427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-courts","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-judiciary","tag-stephen-miller","tag-supreme-court","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17428,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427\/revisions\/17428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}