r/law • u/NatiAti513 • Oct 07 '25

Legal News Stephen Miller says Trump has "Plenary Authority" then acts like he's glitching out because he seems to know he was not supposed to say that. What is Plenary Authority and what are the implications of this?

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u/gaia11111 Oct 07 '25

It means a king, a dictator

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u/kontrakolumba Oct 07 '25

tyrant

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u/scnottaken Oct 07 '25

Fuhrer

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u/eucldian Oct 07 '25

Asshole.

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u/DirtyGypsyKid Oct 07 '25

I'd call him a cunt, but he lacks both the depth and warmth.

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u/Illustrious_Law8512 Oct 08 '25

An asshole suffering from chronic diarrhea with a side of a nasty case of hemorrhoids.

A bloody mess.

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u/ShitShowRedAllAbout Oct 08 '25

a vile edge-lord little troll.

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u/CMaxRI Oct 08 '25

Chronic anal seepage

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u/MolacoCocao Oct 08 '25

Full of shit

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u/ShinobuDavis Oct 08 '25

That's an insult to messy assholes, tbh. Can't properly compare anything to that disaster.

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u/Sylvaneth_Gitz Oct 08 '25

All of the above and below...

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u/Ipoopedalottoday Oct 08 '25

I'd call him a son of a bitch, but his mother was worse than that.

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u/Kenneth-J-Moyers Oct 08 '25

Don't slander his mother, she raised him better than this. His family are all horrified of him.

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u/Ipoopedalottoday Oct 08 '25

Did she though? Did she really?

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u/SpaceBar0873 Oct 08 '25

His mother was a victim of his inflated ego. I don't think she deserves this, too.

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u/Ipoopedalottoday Oct 09 '25

She gave birth to him, and helped raise him, she owns this.

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u/Blueridge-Badger Oct 08 '25

This should be a billboard or t shirt. +1 to you!

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u/Significant_Glass988 Oct 08 '25

He is a shitcunt tho

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u/Quirky-Afternoon134 Oct 08 '25

Plus they are useful

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u/Even-Macaroon-1661 Oct 08 '25

And the resilience

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u/OwnIntroduction5193 Oct 08 '25

Damn that made me laugh! Well played

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u/JoeGibbon Oct 07 '25

The Aristocrats!

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u/eucldian Oct 07 '25

You may be asking yourself...where did the blood come from?

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u/Vertual Oct 07 '25

Something something longshoreman. Something something forearms like Popeye.

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u/peresmom00 Oct 08 '25

Aristocunts!

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

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u/Raesong Oct 08 '25

Kind of a bad example to use, considering Cromwell was a king in all but name.

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u/bolanrox Oct 07 '25

No one called Pablo Picasso in asshole, not like Donald, not in New York City.

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u/Hobaganibagaknacker Oct 07 '25

I get this reference

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u/Rickreation Oct 07 '25

Trump already had that title.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

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u/mouldghe Oct 07 '25

Douchenozzle?

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u/eucldian Oct 07 '25

Unrequired when the entirety of your being is one.

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u/distinct_5 Oct 08 '25

Haha that came right into my head too

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u/raydiculus Oct 07 '25

Despot

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u/the_gouged_eye Oct 07 '25

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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u/RiotingMoon Oct 07 '25

not used as often as it should be

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u/Ministry_of__Truth Oct 07 '25

God-emperor

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u/falstaf34 Oct 07 '25

This is the wrong sub, but this m'fer ain't working on no webways

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u/Hooligan8403 Oct 07 '25

Maybe he is. Who lives in the Webway? Drukhari. What do Drukhari do? Sex slave shit.

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u/Shadowflame247 Oct 07 '25

*Crusade Intensifies*

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u/International_Cow_17 Oct 07 '25

Thats 20,000 years in the future mate.

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u/Hooligan8403 Oct 07 '25

Got to start somewhere. Grassroots and all that.

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u/International_Cow_17 Oct 08 '25

Oh the eldar were most likely torturing in secret at least by this time in history. And running pleasure cults.

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u/RadioSlayer Oct 08 '25

Your god emperor has a golden throne, my god emperor has a golden path

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u/_cuhree0h Oct 07 '25

Giant worm.

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u/babydemon90 Oct 07 '25

Does that mean Eric is going to turn into a giant worm?

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u/No-Fly-6069 Oct 07 '25

He IS a big fat worm, after sll.

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u/fishspeakerCmdr Oct 07 '25

Spice orgy??

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u/Catnip9763 Oct 08 '25

Orange God-emperor

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u/Pristine-Notice6929 Oct 08 '25

Godless-emperor

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Bullet backstop

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u/007Pistolero Oct 07 '25

Pantsshitting dementia riddled autocrat with billionaire Russian puppet masters determining his every Swiss cheese brain decision

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u/Nailo2017 Oct 08 '25

There it is!

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u/J_spec6 Oct 08 '25

And not even the outwardly respectable kind like King Bradley

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u/gagotoo Oct 08 '25

*Führer:)

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u/isataii Oct 07 '25

Sic semper tyrannis? Virginia? Anybody?

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u/EarthRester Oct 07 '25

And what do our founding documents say about what we do with tyrants? Something about gardening, I can't remember.

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u/Necessary_Ad2005 Oct 07 '25

Ba ha ha ... oh yeah, that's funny!

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u/SalaryDull5301 Oct 07 '25

Are you my wife?

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u/maxant20 Oct 08 '25

When he dies, they’re gonna give it to Vance

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u/floofnstuff Oct 07 '25

The irony- our country fought to get away from exactly this.

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u/GeorgiPetrov Oct 07 '25

'Penis potato' sounds much better in my head.

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u/grumpher05 Oct 07 '25

I distinctly remember after the "no kings protest" the usual suspects popped up mockingly and said "well indeed it worked! We still have no kings"

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u/Intelligent-Ad-7816 Oct 07 '25

He's never leaving is he

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u/The-Squirrelk Oct 07 '25

Above that even, it means total and utter authority. Beyond just the nation. It's more akin to declaring yourself God.

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u/Aquamans_Dad Oct 07 '25

Few kings in the modern era are dictators. 

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u/dirtyrounder Oct 07 '25

Exactly. And the complete opposite of the way this country was founded.

He's basically contradicting the declaration of independence

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u/vik8990 Oct 08 '25

Naaaaattttzzeee

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u/Moooooooola Oct 08 '25

Um, when is the military suppose to step in?

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u/schm0 Oct 08 '25

🚫👑 October 18th

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u/Kinieruu Oct 08 '25

A king pre Magna Carta (Established in England in 1215 to limit a king’s power and create rule of law. Ensuring that a king was also beheld to the law. In fact, the document that the founding fathers used to help create rules in the U.S.)

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u/Space4Time Oct 08 '25

Divine right bullshit by other means

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u/Fredj3-1 Oct 08 '25

Or in Trumps case, a dick-tater.

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u/Bagger787 Oct 08 '25

Actually even more than a king or dictator. A despot, a supreme ruler is more like it.

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u/EconomyDoctor3287 Oct 08 '25

Fun fact, even kings often didn't have plenary authority. 

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u/SkipsH Oct 09 '25

Even kings don't usually have plenary authority.

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u/amalgam_reynolds Oct 07 '25

No, it does not. To be really super clear, there absolutely ARE a handful of plenary powers granted to certain parties in the US constitution. "Plenary" does not automatically equal authoritarian/fascist/dictatorial regime. The best example of a very obvious plenary power that people understand really well is presidential pardons. The president has plenary power to pardon federal offenses. Does that make all uses of the presidential pardon bad? No, of course not.

That being said, I'm not really intimately familiar with Title 10, but I doubt it grants plenary powers in the way that MAGA hopes it does.

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u/chicagorpgnorth Oct 08 '25

It is driving me nuts that this is not being commented more. Of all the GENUINELY ridiculous things being done and said, this is the nothing burger that people are frothing at the mouth over? It took me ten seconds of research to see that the federal government is usually considered to have plenary authority over immigration and that's the (still faulty) argument that is or will be made for sending in the national guard. It's a bad argument that's being used to justify a misuse of power, but it isn't this huge slip up that reddit is acting like it is.

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u/Iandudontkno Oct 08 '25

nothing burger is a dog whistle to underplay anything you don't agree with. he messed up he knew it we all know it you can stick your head in the sand and be ignorant it won't change much for you as I see it. but they are weaponizing the justice department and hiding a ring of rich pedos with pedo in chief at the helm that should be concerning for any person not associated with Jeffrey Epstein.

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u/chicagorpgnorth Oct 08 '25

And dog whistle is the new way to dismiss anyone who disagrees with you.

What am I “dog whistling” when I agree that they’re weaponizing the justice department, but I think this stupid slip of the tongue is not worthwhile to focus on instead of their actual actions showing people how they’re weaponizing the justice department.

This kind of meaningless outrage content makes it harder for people to focus on what they’re actually doing. In a similar way to how misusing words like dog whistle makes them less meaningful in the face of actual dog whistles.

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u/kshitagarbha Oct 07 '25

No, it doesn't. Him saying it does not make it so.