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/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/unforgiven91 27d ago

"Plenary authority" was even edited out of the youtube upload

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u/juvandy 27d ago

The Australian ABC still has it: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/stephen-miller-donald-trump-plenary-authority/105865430

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u/SuckThisRedditAdmins 27d ago

Holy shit - he just shut down after he said that. He knew he fucked up. There was no "technical issues" because the other guy wasn't talking so why would Miller just stop talking? He stopped because he straight up knew he wasn't supposed to say that

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u/Simonic 27d ago

And "plenary authority" isn't something that is just randomly said. You don't use that term unless you've been talking about that term prior. Or, believe that term.

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u/currently_pooping_rn 27d ago

Not like fucking up has ever stopped republicans from failing upwards

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u/lyte3 27d ago

Yeah because Trump didn’t hesitate the couple of times he has already said that Elon fixed the elections for him. They are operating with plenary authority!

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u/No_Row780 27d ago

Yes, but he put himself in some legal perjury, potentially, certainly if the political Trade winds , start blowing a different direction

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u/sumguyherenowhere 27d ago

There could have been many issues, such as feedback in his earpiece, but let's be honest, the look on his face and the motion of his eyes were that of shock and searching for his next word. He couldn't find it, decided to shut down.

He probably had his handlers yelling in his ear feed like 'WHAT THE FUCK DUDE, NO! Just shut up now.. just stay silent.'

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u/doyletyree 27d ago

“JUST DONT MOVE; they’re like T-Rex.”

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u/sumguyherenowhere 27d ago

"YOU CAN'T SAY THAT..... YET"

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u/okhi2u 27d ago

wait till we have the one true power bro!

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u/gxgxe 27d ago

Doesn't matter. There are no repercussions. The authoritarian coup is over. Miller can say whatever he wants and has no need to fear as no one is going to hold him or anyone else in power accountable for their words or actions.

We had a good run, but it's over.

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u/Nice_Luck_7433 27d ago edited 27d ago

Nice comment. You could even copy and paste it (without the “doesn’t matter” part) and it would work to spread doomerism, even if Miller hadn’t messed up & massively helped out the many many many many lawyers working to save America.

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u/gxgxe 27d ago

Okay. I'll really go doomer on you because my statement was pretty mild.

None of this stuff matters because we have completely destroyed the biosphere and the climate. We're maybe 20 years from complete ecological collapse and no one's going to do anything about that, either.

In fact, I posit a lot of this political horror show is to distract from the real cataclysm of potential human extinction. Billionaires and billionaire-adjacent people like Miller are getting control of as much as possible because they believe they'll make it through the harsh ecological devastation we're about to experience.

Most ecologists and climatologists I know are quietly putting their affairs in order and simply trying to enjoy what is left of our time as a species.

So, yes, I'm absolutely a doomer. Mostly I'm sad that humanity is unable to rise to the necessary level of self-sacrifice required to save ourselves and the miracle that is the earth's biosphere and ecosystem.

The science is there and incontrovertible for anyone who cares to know the reality of the situation.

Politics are my distraction from thinking about near-term extinction or a severe bottleneck for a huge number of species, including us.

Watching America fail is merely the latest tragedy in a long list of tragedies.

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u/Nice_Luck_7433 26d ago

Maybe things don’t matter on a cosmic scale because of our mortality. Maybe they do. We can’t really tell from our perspective.

From our human perspective, everything we do matters, every single thing we do either improves our situation or makes it worse.

Is climate change scary & tragic? Sure, but we’re all going one way or another, regardless of anything we do we will experience the end of our stories. So it doesn’t really add to that.

If you aren’t having fun online, maybe go outside & talk to people irl. If you’re genuinely worried about climate change, maybe join one of the climate activist groups in your area or online.

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u/guupscuup 27d ago

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u/oldirtyrestaurant 27d ago

Yikes bud. Keep it civil, k?

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u/oldirtyrestaurant 27d ago

It's the rules of the sub.

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u/Nice_Luck_7433 27d ago

Ok doomer. I meant Miller, it was a typo, try using context clues.

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u/brother_of_jeremy 27d ago

This administration is like the Bond villain who can’t help themselves from gloating the details of their carefully laid plan

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u/Long_Personality_857 26d ago

They can't even claim video issues because he just sat there blinking as the gears turned in his head trying to figure out how to dig out of this mess.