The Puppet Doctrine: How Stephen Miller Rewrote a Supreme Court Loss into a Trump Victory

A Reagan judge just warned the rule of law is collapsing but Trump won’t admit defeat. With the courts unified and defiance growing, one unelected aide is scripting the legal fantasy of a dictatorship

For days now, Stephen Miller and Trump surrogates have been claiming the Supreme Court ruled in Trump’s favor in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

That’s a lie.

Now, a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, including a Reagan appointee, has issued a scathing ruling that not only reaffirms what the Supreme Court actually said, but warns …