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Stephen Miller re: 2020 immigration litigation: "We'll win at the Supreme Court." [View all]
From Jonathan Blitzer's book Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Chapter 49, page 430, bolding is mine:
One of the lawsuits, brought against the Department of Homeland Security in April 2019, called for a halt to the MPP policy of shunting asylum seekers into Mexico. The program was briefly blocked, then reinstated. In the White House, Stephen Miller told officials, "Don't waste time trying to anticipate the risk of litigation. Everything will get challenged in the lower courts anyway. We'll win at the Supreme Court."
Looking back to the first Trump presidency through the lens of this book, and seeing the familiar names of our current crisis - Stephen Miller, Thomas Homan, Nayib Bukele, present in the first administration, moving like freight trains through the second.
It was all there, the first term. But there were still guardrails; there were still advisors, generals, Federal officials to thwart the full agenda. Now there are no guardrails left. And Stephen Miller was right about one thing: they did win at the Supreme Court.
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