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President of @america1stlegal. Former Trump 47 Deputy White House Counsel, Trump 45 DOJ/DHS. Personal Account.

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. @StephenM is a patriot's patriot. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Great things ahead for our great country...
BREAKING: President Trump announces he's replacing WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles with WH Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller beginning Monday.
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We should use this talking point to win the illegal immigrant vote
EXCLUSIVE: We spent weeks in Napa Valley investigating Gavin Newsom's wine empire. According to a whistleblower, the operation is built on undocumented migrant labor, in violation of the law. Illegal aliens pick the grapes—and Newsom sells the wine for up to $7,000 a bottle.
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BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the reason this 2x previously deported illegal alien was released into the country after his third illegal crossing in 2019 is because he claimed to be transgender and claimed fear of being killed in his home country on his asylum application, which was approved in early 2020. DHS has provided that section from his application 👇🏻 DHS alleges that this was a blatant case of asylum fraud and the “gaming of a weak asylum system.” This detail first scooped by @JennieSTaer.
NEW: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that a suspect arrested on a Newark to New Orleans United flight last night for allegedly storming the cockpit and claiming to have a bomb, leading to United putting out a hijack alert for the plane, is a 2x previously deported Honduran illegal alien. Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto was arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s office once the flight landed at MSY (New Orleans airport) and he has been charged with felony bomb threat, terroristic threats, and disorderly conduct. Per DHS - Gomez-Alberto crossed the Texas border illegally in 2011 and was deported, then illegally re-entered through the New Mexico border in 2014 and was deported a second time. He illegally re-entered the country a third time in 2019, was arrested by Border Patrol, but was released from custody after an immigration judge ordered his release. He is currently being held without bond by law enforcement in Louisiana.
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After the election, @SenBlumenthal & his allies think they can intimidate Americans for their constitutionally protected associations w/ President Trump. Congress is not a weapon to be wielded against the American people. I'm taking the first step to stop this abuse of power.
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The First Amendment expressly prohibits Congress from infringing the speech and association rights of Americans. DOJ will defend against threats to those rights, period.
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I am pleased to announce that President Trump has appointed Craig Trainor as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. Since October 2025, Craig has served as the Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, where he oversaw nationwide enforcement of HUD civil rights statutes. Craig was also the principal architect of HUD’s civil rights enforcement policies, which cut the Biden-era fair housing case backlog in half. I thank Craig for taking on this critical role and for his dedicated service to the American people and President Trump.
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Very important post from Eric. District judges are issuing orders that are unlawful and then sanction career AUSAs because they allegedly misrepresented the scope of the injunction in another case. Yet there are no consequences for the district court judges who issue unlawful orders.
Federal law limits district court authority over immigration cases in many ways. One way is that it bans injunctions issued by district courts that extend beyond the alien before that judge. Here, a DOJ attorney appears to be sanctioned for (maybe) violating an illegal injunction
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The Biden Admin turned a blind eye the countless kids who were trafficked across Biden's open border because they REFUSED to take basic precautions like confirming kids were actually related to their supposed 'family' sponsors. Anyone criticizing this commonsense action doesn't care about the safety of unaccompanied minors, they care about scoring political points.
An 8-year-old Haitian boy was escorted by federal immigration agents inside a government building in San Diego, California, after attending an immigration check-in with a man who claimed to be his uncle. The Department of Homeland Security said the man could not establish legal guardianship of the child, prompting ICE to classify him as an unaccompanied minor and place him in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. DHS defended the decision, saying it was made to ensure the boy’s safety, and disputed claims that he had been placed in immigration detention. Children transferred to the agency’s care are typically housed in shelters or foster homes until a suitable sponsor is found or they turn 18.
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Jeff’s astute post demonstrates why Navarro v. United States is more important now than ever before. The question we asked SCOTUS to decide is whether someone who believes in good faith that executive privilege prevents compliance with a Congressional subpoena should be forced to go to jail without the opportunity to present this defense to the jury. It is an important question to answer especially with all the Congressional oversight battles that loom over the next two years.
The White House Counsel's Office has now put the incoming Oversight Chair on written notice, and the letter goes straight to the controlling law. Quoting the Supreme Court in Watkins, investigations "conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to 'punish' those investigated are indefensible." Congress, it says, cannot use investigations "to exercise powers of criminal prosecution assigned to the Executive and the Judiciary." That is the heart of what I've been calling Silly Subpoena Season. "Lawyer up" is not the language of legislating. It's the language of a unchecked prosecutor. And when members brag about handing out subpoenas like "candy" and "Mardi Gras beads," as the letter notes, they are building the record a court will read later when it asks whether a subpoena serves a valid legislative purpose. Mazars tells courts to look hard at exactly that, and at breadth, when Congress comes after the President's information. Don't misread the letter as a refusal to deal. It's the opening move in the accommodation process, which is the Constitution's actual structural answer here. Name the legislation you're considering, tailor the request to it, and negotiate. If that fails, the fight belongs in a civil case. What it doesn't belong in is a grand jury. That's why Licavoli has to go and why the Navarro case matters now. Oversight is a serious constitutional power. A subpoena is a tool for legislating, not a party favor or a frivolous festival bead. @RealPNavarro
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Happy Veterans Day!  Today, we honor all who have served.  America would not exist without them.
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Thank a veteran today. ❤️
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🚨BREAKING NEWS in @PunchbowlNews AM The White House counsel warned Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the incoming House Oversight Committee chair, in a new letter that some of the new majority’s investigations could cross the line into criminal behavior. It’s an audacious claim that signals the White House is taking an aggressive — and hugely controversial — stance toward Democratic oversight in the 120th Congress. The letter, penned by White House counsel Will Scharf, says that Congress can only investigate matters for a legislative purpose — a position that Republicans have relied on and stretched in recent years. Further, the Scharf letter, sent to Garcia on Monday, says that Democratic investigations are designed to “harass and aggrandize rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end.” punchbowl.news/wh-hill_lette…
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For our kids and yours, let’s Make America Healthy Again.
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“His priorities will sound familiar to Trump watchers: eliminating what the administration considers "woke" policies from colleges and workplaces, lowering prescription drug prices, and rooting out government and health-care fraud. “He also wants to emphasize reducing the federal bureaucracy and push for permitting reform, while highlighting how those efforts could help address affordability. “Sources in the business community say Miller's ideological drive makes him mostly impervious to typical Washington lobbying.”
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Here’s @StephenM full answer when asked in December 2025 when asked if the chief of staff’s job to tell the president what he doesn’t want to hear: “No, I wouldn’t say that,” Miller replied, finding fault with my framing of the question and insisting that this president wants to hear everything. “The chief of staff would never have to encounter the scenario you’re describing. President Trump craves, he loves the every-minute detail of management, having every piece of information, having every side of everything, having inputs into the Oval Office from every square, every quarter, every person.” As for the president’s staff, Miller said, their job is “implementing the president’s vision, the president’s directions, the president’s agenda, the president’s plans for the future…. We’re just here on his behalf to see that that is done.”
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FANTASTIC!!! 💪
Replying to @axiosalex
More White House staffing news. Caleb Orr will become Deputy Chief for Policy, succeeding Stephen Miller, per 2 ppl familiar
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NEW: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that a suspect arrested on a Newark to New Orleans United flight last night for allegedly storming the cockpit and claiming to have a bomb, leading to United putting out a hijack alert for the plane, is a 2x previously deported Honduran illegal alien. Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto was arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s office once the flight landed at MSY (New Orleans airport) and he has been charged with felony bomb threat, terroristic threats, and disorderly conduct. Per DHS - Gomez-Alberto crossed the Texas border illegally in 2011 and was deported, then illegally re-entered through the New Mexico border in 2014 and was deported a second time. He illegally re-entered the country a third time in 2019, was arrested by Border Patrol, but was released from custody after an immigration judge ordered his release. He is currently being held without bond by law enforcement in Louisiana.
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America First Legal Senior Counsel Nick Barry: This case is shocking.  Washington state forced a women’s-only spa to let in NAKED MEN. America First Legal is asking the Supreme Court to hear the spa's case and DEFEND women’s spaces. Join our fight: aflegal.org/take-action/join…
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