‘Alarm’ at White House after Vance and Miller pushed Insurrection Act, habeas corpus suspension during anti-ICE protests

‘Alarm’ at White House after Vance and Miller pushed Insurrection Act, habeas corpus suspension during anti-ICE protests

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on June 15, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. A Monday report in The New York Times revealed what it described as the “alarm” felt by some White House lawyers at proposals made earlier this year by Vice President JD Vance and Trump adviser Stephen Miller as the administration was forced to contend with widespread anger over its anti-immigration agenda. Amon…

Vance and Miller: All the laws but maybe one are to go unexecuted

The frightening thing is that Trump is somehow the least authoritarian crackpot in his inner circle (well, generously defining the inner circle to include the vice president)[gl]: Inside the White House, Mr. Miller, the influential deputy chief of staff, saw an opening for an idea he had raised previously: What if Mr. Trump simply claimed the power to suspend habeas corpus? Then the locked-up immigrants would be blocked from receiving hearings …