The Last Voice in the Room
Stephen Miller becomes the new White House Chief of Staff on Monday, November 9, and here is what you need to know. He is the most dangerous guy in Washington you never voted for. He’s a backroom operator with a front-row seat to influence and power.
He’s not a cabinet secretary, not a lawyer, and certainly not a constitutional scholar. Yet, as Donald Trump’s former deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor and new Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller wields unchecked power. He’s got a VIP pass to the Oval Office, no appointment, no protocol. He walks in whenever he wants and stays until everyone else is gone, making sure he’s the last voice Trump hears before a decision is made.
That’s not just influence, that’s control. And in my opinion, this unelected ideologue isn’t just advising, he’s steering the administration toward authoritarianism under the guise of patriotism, and we can’t let him get away with it.
A Radicalization Story
Miller’s journey from a Santa Monica upbringing to the White House is detailed in Jean Guerrero’s biography, “Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda.” The book traces his radicalization, highlighting his associations with white nationalist Richard Spencer during his time at Duke University.
You might remember Spencer as being a key organizer of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which turned violent and resulted in the death of a counter-protester. Her name was Heather Heyer, and she was a 32-year-old paralegal from Charlottesville. On August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of people protesting the Unite the Right rally. He killed Heyer and injured dozens of others.
You probably remember Trump’s famous quote, there “were very fine people on both sides” at the rally that day.
In 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center released emails sent by Miller that promoted white nationalist literature and websites, including VDARE and American Renaissance.
Following the release of his emails, over 80 members of Congress called for Miller’s resignation, citing his promotion of white nationalist ideologies. Read the emails here.
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From Family Separation to Mass Deportation
Miller’s tenure has been marked by policies that many view as extreme and inhumane. In Trump’s first term, he was a chief architect of the travel ban targeting predominantly Muslim countries and the family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border. That policy tore thousands of children from their parents and left kids living in chain-link enclosures inside warehouse-like facilities.
That was the rehearsal. The second term is the main event.
On May 21, 2025, Miller walked into ICE headquarters with then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Miller was visibly furious. He berated officials for the low number of arrests of undocumented immigrants. He then issued a directive to arrest 3,000 people a day.
For context, the administration boasted of 32,809 ICE arrests in the first 50 days of Trump’s return to office, which averages out to 656 arrests per day. Miller went on Fox and called it a goal: “a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day.” One official told a conservative outlet that Miller didn’t want ICE to narrow its field to just undocumented immigrants with criminal records, and that he wanted to know why agents weren’t at Home Depot. ICE never came close. ICE booked an average of 990 arrests per day from July 1 to July 27. Then, in court, the government told a different story. The DoJ has now denied the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests in Wednesday filings to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The July 2025 “Big Beautiful Bill” gave Miller’s machine a war chest. Under the 2025 law, ICE has a $75 billion supplement that it can take as long as four years to spend, along with its base budget of around $10 billion. Of that supplement, $45 billion goes to building out detention. When Trump returned to office in January 2025, immigration detention held roughly 40,000 people. The daily immigration detention population reached a peak in mid-January 2026 with more than 73,000 people detained per day, and in July it still averaged more than 66,000. The death toll followed. Thirty-seven people died in ICE custody in 2026, the most in the agency’s history. As of October 2026, at least 60 immigrants had died in ICE custody less than two years into the second Trump term. Every one of those deaths happened inside a system built to hit a number.
In March 2025, the administration reached for the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a law Miller had previously championed. Under it, 137 were removed pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison. Miller told CNN the courts had no say: “There’s not one clause in that law that makes it subject to judicial review”. The United States Supreme Court disagreed. It held that detainees “are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.” A Fifth Circuit panel later found the invocation unlawful. The full court vacated that ruling and, in August 2026, dismissed the case as moot because the government had deported the named plaintiffs under other laws. The legality question remains unresolved.
The same flights carried Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father ICE deported through ordinary removal by mistake, despite an earlier immigration court order barring his removal there. The administration brought him back in June 2025 to face a smuggling charge, and a federal judge has since barred ICE from detaining him again.
Here is the legal point Miller keeps getting wrong. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process to every “person.” It does not limit that guarantee to citizens, and no statute from 1798 overrides it.
When Los Angeles erupted over ICE raids in June 2025, Miller has repeatedly branded the Los Angeles protests an “insurrection”. Trump deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objection. Washington, D.C. came next. Chicago was supposed to follow, but the courts stopped it. The 6-3 ruling, which comes more than two months after the Trump Administration made an emergency appeal to the high court, effectively prevents the federal government from using federalized troops in Chicago. When courts blocked the deployment to Portland, Miller said Trump had “plenary authority,” and he called those rulings a “legal insurrection.”
Then came Minneapolis, where Fatal Minneapolis shooting comes with over 2,000 ICE officers deployed in largest immigration enforcement ever. On January 7, 2026, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a recorded confrontation in Minneapolis. Good, who was a U.S. citizen, was a legal observer of federal actions in the city and was not a target for arrest by ICE agents, city leaders said.
Administration officials branded her actions domestic terrorism, yet videos of the incident don’t appear to show that Good tried to run over Ross. A week later, DHS re-posted Miller’s message from October telling ICE officers they have “federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.” PolitiFact had already rated that claim Mostly False, because Federal immigration agents are not immune from federal or state prosecution if they break the law.
On January 24, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for Veterans’ Affairs, was filming ICE agents on a Minneapolis street. The DHS report identifies the officers who fired at Pretti as a Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Protection officer. Pretti was a lawful gun owner with a carry permit, and one video shows that a federal agent removed a gun from Pretti’s waist area just before he was shot. Miller called him a “would-be assassin” before the facts came in. Three days later, Miller backed down and said officials are “evaluating” why Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis “may not have been following” protocol.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner released its findings into the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents, ruling his death a homicide. As of the latest reporting, no one has been charged in either killing. In my opinion, a man who calls a nurse an assassin before he watches the tape and completing an investigation has no business running the country’s most powerful office.
The travel ban, version two. Under Miller, the first-term travel ban came back bigger and broader. On December 16, 2025, Trump issued an expanded travel ban that now includes 39 countries as well as individuals with travel documents issued by the Palestinian Authority. The list now reaches well beyond the Muslim world, including Haiti, Laos, Cuba, Venezuela and Tonga. It also stripped exceptions that once protected families, including 3 major visa exceptions removed (immediate relative, adoption-related, and Afghan Special Immigrant Visas).
These actions have drawn widespread criticism for their ethical and legal implications. Now, starting Monday, the architect of this agenda runs the entire White House staff and 24/7 access to Trump’s ear.
Controversial Statements and Actions
In addition to what I shared above, there’s more. Miller has made even more statements that have sparked controversy. In a 2017 appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation, he claimed that the president’s powers to protect the country “will not be questioned,” a statement that was criticized for undermining the judiciary’s role.
In a recent 2025 press encounter, Miller indicated that the administration was considering suspending the “privilege” of the writ of habeas corpus. As a lawyer who has studied the U.S. Constitution and the law for 40 years, you should know that the write of habeas corpus is not a privilege; it’s a fundamental constitutional right.
The fact of the matter is that the writ of habeas corpus is explicitly protected under Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, known as the Suspension Clause. You don’t just get to suspend a Constitutional right because you don’t like how due process works.
Every time I hear this guy talk about the law, I cringe because despite his confident and arrogant delivery, he rarely comes close to accurately interpreting or explaining the legal issue at hand. That goes for the facts too. And yet, this is the guy Trump selected after having his ass handed to him in this week’s elections.
Family Members
Even members of Miller’s own family shared scathing criticism about his beliefs and actions. In a 2018 op-ed for Politico, Miller’s uncle, Dr. David S. Glosser, called his nephew an “immigration hypocrite,” pointing out that Miller’s great-grandfather fled anti-Jewish persecution in Belarus in 1903, a journey that would have been impossible under Miller’s restrictive immigration stance.
Dr. Glosser said, “If in the early 20th century the USA had built a wall against poor desperate ignorant immigrants of a different religion, like the Glossers, all of us would have gone up the crematoria chimneys with the other six million kinsmen whom we can never know.”
Furthermore, Glosser expressed “dismay and increasing horror” at Miller’s involvement in policies like the family separation initiative, stating such actions “repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.” He also called Miller’s policies “morally reprehensible.” Patti Glosser Rudick, another family member, shared similar comments and described the situation as “sick sick sick.”
These statements underscore the profound familial rift caused by Miller’s role in shaping and defending controversial immigration policies, particularly the family separation policy.
Why Is This Guy Still Allowed In The White House?
As a lawyer and a citizen who actually believes in the rule of law, let me lay it out for you: Stephen Miller isn’t just another advisor. He’s the guy pulling the strings behind the scenes, the unelected extremist who’s been given a front-row seat to power without a single vote of confidence from you or me.
His track record? Ugly. His influence? Dangerous. And the fact that he’s calling the shots in Trump’s White House should make every American’s blood boil.
On Tuesday, America woke up and voted for change. On Friday Trump said Miller continue to be his guy moving forward with his promotion to White House Chief of Staff.
Let’s be clear. The current MAGA Republican Congress has allowed all of this to happen. Having said that, our new incoming majority in Congress will need to wake up and pay attention, and I believe they will. This guy isn’t some harmless policy wonk, he’s a ticking time bomb wrapped in a suit and a smug grin. And if we don’t start calling him out for what he is, a threat to our democracy, then we’re just handing him the keys to the castle.
America, just like we did on Tuesday night, it’s long past time to step up, speak out, and shut this guy down before he does even more damage.
Mitch Jackson, Esq. | recommendations
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As others have mentioned, Nov. 9 is a significant date in German history: Nov. 9, 1923, Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch; Nov. 9, 1938, Kristallnacht, the nationwide pogrom where Jewish businesses were destroyed, among other things; Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall opened. Is is a coincidence that Miller assumes his new role on that same date in 2026?
Well this should be interesting but I hope not. I guess we will have to document the movement of Stephen Miller he has obviously already committed Crimes against America. I'm sure in the next week or two we will find out how far he will try to go or go above the law above the Constitution of which we will be recording every moment. I'm sure there will be a reckoning of which our governors our mayors our Senators and our House of Representative members will be keenly watching what transpires. Besides Ice this will be a moment in time that history will document the worst America can be and it is surely NOT GREAT.