White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller obliterated CNN’s Pamela Brown during a segment when the pair butted heads on the topic of checks and balances.
The smug CNN anchor spoke about a victory that President Donald Trump had at the Supreme Court when it ruled in his favor on revoking the protected status of some migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
She pointed to that victory and another recent legal victory for the administration before asking Miller, who had complained about “rogue” judges, “Do you think a judge should just rubber stamp what your White House does? If not, what checks and balances should be in place?”
“It is not the job of a district court judge to perform an individual green-light or red-light on every single policy the president takes as the head of the executive branch. Just think about the premise baked into your question. You’re saying that when the American people elect a President of the United States of America,” Miller said before Brown cut in.
“I’m not saying …” Brown began before Miller then interrupted.
“Well, it’s the implication,” Miller said.
“But look, when you have these kinds of lazy assumptions built into questions, it makes it hard to have constructive dialogue. You said, ‘Is it my expectation…?’ It’s not just you, it’s the whole media…,” the deputy chief of staff added.
“When you say, ‘Do we think district court judges should rubber-stamp each action,’ there is a premise that is built into that that is absurd. The president is the sole head of the executive branch. He’s the only officer in the entire government that is elected by the entire American people,” Miller said.
“Democracy cannot function—in fact, democracy does not exist at all—if each action the president takes, foreign policy, diplomatic, military, national security, has to be individually approved by 700 district court judges. That’s democracy?” he said.
“So if there’s 15 communist, crazy judges on the court, that each of them as a team working together can block and freeze each and every executive action? Joe Biden was allowed by that same court system 20 million illegal foreigners into this country,” he said.
But the CNN anchor pressed on, asking why the president appointed some of these “crazy, communist judges” who have ruled against him.
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Miller contended that the Federalist Society, on whom Trump relied during his first term for recommendations to the federal bench, had created a “broken system” for vetting judges and that the administration would not be using them going forward.
Brown asked if the president regretted picking Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for the nation’s highest court given that she was vetted by the Federalist Society, but Miller did not take the bait.
“What it means is simply this and nothing more: We’re not going to be using the Federalist Society to make judicial nominations at all going forward,” the deputy chief of staff said.
“But let me tell you about these rogue judges. This is the most litigated issue over the last ten years—whether or not to deport the foreigners who invaded our country illegally. That is the most litigated issue,” he said, getting back to the issue.
“You want a democracy in this country? When Americans vote, when they cry out and they beg for a president to come and save them from this invasion, and some district court judge in San Francisco or Manhattan or Los Angeles tries to shut it down and shield these foreigners from deportation—while the courts did nothing to stop Joe Biden and his administration and his officers and Mayorkas from overseeing this invasion?” Miller said.
“And of course we celebrate the fact the Supreme Court stepped in—and actually celebrate with the Trump administration, the previous one, with Biden. But nobody stopped Joe Biden from flooding this country with foreign invaders,” he said.