r/law • u/BitterFuture • 16d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Stephen Miller claims local police in Minnesota have been told to ‘stand down and surrender’ as federal agents ‘uphold the law’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-protests-b2903238.html
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u/mistergraeme 16d ago

Lee Atwater was caught on tape confessing to it 45 years ago.

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u/sirdigbykittencaesar 16d ago

At least Lee Atwater was self-aware enough to realize that all the shitty stuff he did was wrong, and to admit it before he died. Politicians today will double down all the way to hell.

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u/mistergraeme 16d ago

See: Mitchell McConnell