Confidential memos leaked from inside Donald Trump's White House reveal that Stephen Miller, the administration's deputy chief of staff for policy, was the central driving force behind a push to dismantle one of the most fundamental constitutional rights in American law — the right of detainees to challenge their imprisonment in court.
The disclosures, drawn from the forthcoming book 'Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump' by New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, show that Trump was intrigued by Miller's proposals for effectively suspending the constitutional right of migrants to appeal their detention and quizzed aides about Abraham Lincoln's use of the power during the Civil War, while Miller ordered Justice Department lawyers to study the legal precedent.
