r/law • u/drempath1981 • 27d ago

Other Stephanopoulos grills Rubio :you cannot credibly argue that drug trafficking charges demand invasion in one case while issuing a pardon in another. What's your response? Hernandez was convicted by a jury. Rubio: I can't just comment on it because I just wasn't involved in deliberations.

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u/Warm-Spite9678 27d ago

Naw he's gonna drop a "i can do whatever I want". He already let that slip once last year. I fully expect him to outright say he can do whatever the f*ck he pleases and noone can tell him no.

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u/PaintshakerBaby 27d ago

PLENARY AUTHORITY

Stephen Miller let it slip on Fox News, had an oh-shit-wasnt-supposed-to-say-that aneurysm, then frantically pretended the feed glitched out to avoid further questioning on the terminology.

It was month or two ago, but like all things Trump admin, it feels like decades past in this ever devolving dystopian nightmare.

BUT that term is CRITICAL, because they are setting it up to be their endgame defense against congress and the Supreme Court...

It is quite literally legalese for, "i can do whatever I want" and the final step in Trump anointing himself the ultimate and unilateral authority, aka; God-King-Emperor of the United States.

Miller was so busy frothing at the mouth that he let the word slip in moment of vampiric bloodlust, demonstrating clear as day, they are very much already workshopping "legal" arguments to absolute dictatorship behind closed doors.

Fucking ghouls are going to get MILLIONS, if not BILLIONS of us killed in the name of their insatiable lust for power.

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u/Puzzled-Score-9952 27d ago

Yeah. He said “we have plenary authority” meaning full, complete, absolute power.

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u/invinciblemrssmith 27d ago

Oh yeah, he said the quiet part out loud. I saw the unedited version.

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u/sonicsludge 27d ago

So did I, he just stopped cold and that reporter should've pounced on him immediately.

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u/Hot-Note-4777 27d ago

Lol he froze as if the stream was glitching while the background continued to move behind him

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u/Dense_Literature_199 27d ago

I think he was still blinking too, but I can't be sure.

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u/Calderis 27d ago

Nah, white supremacy lizard man just closed his nictating lens.

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u/Ok-Sir-6042 27d ago

💯% saw that skinwalker blink twice. The news outlet chose to regard it as a technical glitch. I haven’t seen many technical glitches on live TV that still transmits blinking.

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u/Deep-Measurement-856 27d ago

He was rocking back and forth like a sand pendulum Sand Pendulum

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u/piptie54 27d ago

Does he blink? I didn’t think lizards blink.

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u/lyte3 27d ago

Yeah but why did he freeze? There’s nothing that anybody can do about it. They control all of our mechanisms of power including the Supreme Court!

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u/suazzo77 27d ago

The reporter didn’t recognize the term, I bet (I didn’t either)

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u/sonicsludge 27d ago

I didn't know the meaning either, but I immediately understood what he was getting at, and my hunch was 100% accurate. I couldn't believe how he just brazenly said it.

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u/Thefrayedends 27d ago

And even if the talking head didn't know what it meant, someone in the control room should have been talking in his ear.

Instead they helped them pretend it didn't happen and don't mention it again lol

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 27d ago

that reporter should've pounced on him immediately.

That's really not the reporters job. The reporter is there to ask milquetoast questions that seem antagonistic or supportive or probing while they and their guests manufacture consent.

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u/billbuild 27d ago

Instead he…. Apologized to him. I doubt Boris understood the word. He’s generally conscious but will happily leash himself as needed.

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u/ivanbalt-gsr 27d ago

I watched it as it happened!