Living In Interesting Times

 Senate Republicans might force a serious fight over Trump’s “big, beautiful bill, which could mean it never passes, because the House passed their version by only one vote.

But would the Senate (and the House) show as much resolve if this happened?

Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters that “the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. So I would say that’s an option we’re actively looking at.” During a recent congressional hearing, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem incorrectly defined habeas corpus as “a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their rights.”

("Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller”? What a hell that White House must be.)

One problem:

The suspension clause can only be invoked by Congress, not the president, despite what the Trump administration has said. It also specifically limits the circumstances under which habeas can be suspended, rather than revoking habeas corpus in its entirety, because the founders wanted to ensure that judicial review of detention cases could still continue even in a true emergency. The reality is that the Trump administration is likely hoping that “no one actually pays close attention to the text,” Vladeck said, “because it’s not just that we’re not actually being invaded by anyone right now, it’s that even the suspension clause does not authorize suspensions by the president, ever.”

Miller, of course, thinks his white country is being invaded by brown people. I honestly think he has plans in place to deport the blacks next, but he’s gotta somewhere.

So, usurping Congressional authority to fuck with the courts and claim monarchical power? Grounds for impeachment and removal, or nah?

I really hope we don’t have to get an answer to that question.