Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right [View all]

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Source: NYT

Inside the White House, Mr. Miller, the influential deputy chief of staff, saw an opening for an idea he had raised previously: What if Mr. Trump simply claimed the power to suspend habeas corpus?

Then the locked-up immigrants would be blocked from receiving hearings or even from seeking court orders to prevent their removal from the country. This was an opportunity for Mr. Trump not only to speed up deportations, but also to assert vastly expanded power over a legal system that was getting in his way.

Suspending habeas corpus was one of two radical ideas Mr. Miller had been pushing that alarmed Mr. Scharf. The other was invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military to enforce the law on American streets as protests grew against deportation sweeps.

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In the case of the Insurrection Act, Vice President JD Vance pushed to invoke it just days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a Minnesota critical care nurse who was protesting the administration’s immigration policies.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/politics/trump-scharf-habeas-corpus-insurrection-act.html

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

— David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) 2026-06-15T10:36:54.713Z

Only in this stupid fascist administration does a short memo that reads like a high schooler straightforwardly summarizing the history of habeas corpus suspensions somehow become a confidential document reported out as a brave and complex act of internal resistance

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— Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T11:05:04.916Z

JD Vance can NEVER become president under any circumstance. When Trump is so far gone that he must be impeached and removed, Vance must be removed, too. Here's the evidence

— Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T12:46:31.220Z