This is quite bad. The White House should not be directly involved with specific arrests.
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Update: DHS — whose officers conducted this detention — did not answer questions. It instead directed us to the White House.
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coming from the White House this is impeachable
However, it does not grant the president “plenary authority” over the DOJ, itself a creation of Congress.
But Trump does not hold such powers. Both the judicial and legislative are capable of constraining him - ergo, not plenary.
The courts weren’t designed to run executive functions or to impose alternative policy choices.
We have a system where NO branch is doing its job properly.
If you don’t solve the underlying problem that governmental systems aren’t functioning you won’t be able to reverse that atrocity against constitutional order, or much elsewhere.