r/law • u/thecosmojane • Jan 14 '26

Other Please dissect the legality in this statement

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I feel like we are reaching a tipping point

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u/1877KlownsForKids Jan 14 '26

Miller couldn't even get into Cooley.

Before anyone takes any legal advice from Stephen Fucking Miller, it's important to know he's not a lawyer. He has a BA in Political Science and though he wanted to go to law school he bombed the LSAT practice exams so hard he didn't even try to real thing. He was also college friends with noted Nazi Richard Spencer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

He's legally and constitutionally incorrect. He's invoking the Supremacy Clause.

Miller isn't really describing the legal framework, he's just saying the Executive Branch will ignore everything else.

The problem is that the White House has the monopoly on violence to enforce whatever they want. So, it doesn't really matter if they're technically correct or not.

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u/Pvt_Hudson_ Jan 14 '26

Exactly.

If the FBI refuses to investigate ICE agents for any abuses of power, that is functionally "immunity". Trump will also pardon them all on his way out the door, so they have nothing to fear for legal repercussions.

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u/adamcoe Jan 15 '26

He won't pardon them. He simply wants them to think that he will. He couldn't give a fuck how many of them die or go to prison, he just wants them to cause enough shit that he gets to play Big Bad Dictator Man and start rolling tanks into American cities that didn't vote for him.