Senior White House advisor Stephen Miller made some comments this afternoon that are already getting a lot of media attention. Miller suggested that the Trump administration was looking at ways to suspend due process for illegal immigrants, specifically habeus corpus rights.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters Friday that the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus — a legal procedure that allows people to challenge a government’s decision to detain them.
“The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,” Miller told reporters Friday. “So it’s an option we’re actively looking at. Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”
Suspending habeas corpus would require, under the Constitution, that the country be “in Cases…
