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Tim Rips Stephen Miller’s Sick Abuse of Power

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller joins Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez on MSNBC’s The Weeknight to discuss the Trump administration’s alarming threats to suspend habeas corpus, the disturbing surge in ICE detentions without due process, and how Trump's immigration policies are eroding constitutional protections.

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0:00.0

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0:25.6

Michael Steele and my girls, Simone Sanders and Alicia Menendez, who have a new primetime show

0:30.8

on MSNBC. So I went up there to be with them. Week one, we got into this insane news week to cap it off for everybody.

0:41.4

I wanted to show you a couple of clips from it. So check it out here. And I'll be back with you

0:47.3

on the board podcast on Monday. We'll see you all then. Peace. We are back staying on that breaking

0:52.3

news out of Newark, New Jersey. The city's mayor arrested at a protest outside an ICE detention center.

0:58.0

Joining the conversation, MSNBC political analysts and writer-at-large for the bulwark,

1:01.9

Tim Miller, and MSNBC senior Washington correspondent and co-host of the weekend, Eugene Daniels.

1:07.4

And back with us, Andrew Weissman.

1:10.0

I just know, we've been talking about habeas corpus, and I think it's important folks have the

1:13.9

definition. So it is a, actually, Andrew Weissman, you're the guru here. Tell us what habeas corpus is.

1:22.3

I could get my dictionary, but you're better. So, I mean, it is commonly noted the great writ, but don't worry, I'm not going to get

1:31.3

to in the weeds.

1:33.3

It is something that even before this country was founded, it was incredibly important in

1:40.3

England and then in the United States to have this ability to go to court to say produce the body,

1:48.8

that if you have been improperly charged, improperly seized, that you had ability to go to court and say under a writ of habeas corpus,

1:58.3

a judge has to determine that it was valid for the state to do this to you.

2:03.4

It is such a fundamental part of our freedoms.

2:07.9

That is why what Stephen Miller is saying is both not going to happen, but to Michael's point,

2:14.1

is incredibly dangerous.

2:16.3

For anyone who is a lawyer, this is,

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