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May 11, 2025
Partner of Convicted Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Raises Millions for New Blood-Testing Company
Billy Evans, the partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is raising millions of dollars for a blood-testing company, the New York Times reported Saturday. Evans is said to be approaching investors about his new company Haemanthus, “a health-testing company that can make diagnoses from users’ blood, urine and saliva.”
The company bears more than a passing resemblance to Theranos. Holmes claimed the company had the ability offer diagnoses by testing small amounts of blood. Haemanthus was incorporated in January 2024 and will likely run tests on pets before beginning human trials.
Holmes was charged with fraud after a Wall Street Journal investigation into Theranos uncovered lies about the capabilities of the company’s technology. She was convicted in January 2022 and later attempted to flee the United States to Mexico. Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in November of the same year.
Haemanthus marketing material reviewed by the Times claims the company will use a laser to look at samples — blood, saliva, or urine — “on a molecular level.” The technology would be used to diagnose illnesses and cancer.
Evans and Holmes met while the latter was being investigated by federal authorities. He has not commented on Haemanthus.
Evans has raised several million dollars from family and friends, the Times also reported, and most of the 10-person team is from Luminar, a self-driving car company where Evans worked for two years. The marketing materials also indicate Evans believes the team needs “three years and $70 million” to develop a wearable device for humans.
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May 10, 2025
‘SNL’: Trump Crashes Mother’s Day Celebration, Cecily Strong Returns as Jeanine Pirro in Cold Open | Video
President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) interrupted Bowen Yang, Marcello Hernández and Kenan Thompson’s sweet Mother’s Day celebration in this week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open in order to celebrate the election of the first American pope and introduce viewers to the new United States attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro (a returning Cecily Strong).
Before Yang, Thompson and Hernández’s Mother’s Day song could reach its chorus, Johnson’s Trump came in to crash their party. “It’s me again, invading all aspects of your life!” he announced, while shooing the “SNL” cast members and their “moms” offstage. “Don’t worry. Those aren’t even the real moms. Those are actors! Can you believe that? ‘SNL’ wouldn’t spring for the flights.”
“There’s a new pope from Chicago,” Johnson’s Trump said, referencing the election this week of Illinois native Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV. “We like Pope Leo. We hope he does… what we want. That’s what you want the pope to do — what you want, right? Otherwise, I’ll have to send [Vice President] JD [Vance] back to do his thing. Remember the last time JD met the pope?”
“He’s got the Midas Touch, but for bad things!” Johnson’s Trump observed. “He meets the pope? Dead! Goes to India? War! He joins my campaign? Trump wins!” You can watch the “SNL” cold open in the video below.
Trump interrupts a Mother’s Day message pic.twitter.com/1SKvMj0inV
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) May 11, 2025
Vance was not the only member of his administration that Johnson’s president shouted out Saturday night. He also celebrated his appointment of Pirro, who arrived “prepared” with a bag to carry her wine glass and bottle. “Mr. President, I’m so proud to be part of this group full of Russian assets, booze hounds and people famous for the little baby animals they’ve killed,” Strong’s Pirro drunkenly told Johnson’s Trump.
She went on to make a bunch of not-even-vaguely racist remarks about the citizens of Washington D.C., telling Johnson’s Trump, “I’m so glad we can talk like this again!” The president defended his appointment of Pirro, informing “SNL” viewers, “She’s a great legal mind! And she has the most important quality I look for in a lawyer: She’s on TV!”
“I love having people from Fox News [in my administration]. They all do an incredible job. Just look at [Secretary of Defense] Pete Hegseth! Not one mistake,” Johnson’s Trump added. “Oh, I love Pete Hegseth,” Strong’s Pirro responded. “He’s my old drinking buddy!” When “Weekend Update” host Colin Jost then stepped in to make his debut as Hegseth, taking over the role for fellow “SNL” cast member Andrew Dismukes, Strong’s Pirro reacted to his arrival by spitting a full swig of red wine right in his face.
“Hey, Pete, you’re not drinking again, are you?” Johnson’s Trump asked. “No, absolutely not, sir. I promised I would never have a bottle touch my lips [again],” Jost’s Hegseth responded, before passing a bottle of whiskey to Strong’s Pirro so she could spit the alcohol into his mouth. Standing next to the two Fox News personalities, Johnson’s Trump said, “Folks, they’re not the A-Team. They’re the AA-Team!”
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DHS Spokesperson Threatens to Arrest House Democrats on CNN Over ICE Protest | Video
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN’s Victor Blackwell Saturday that the Trump administration could arrest House Democrats who participated in a protest outside an ICE detention center in New Jersey, something that “put law enforcement at risk and this actually put the detainees as well at risk.”
McLaughlin opened the interview on Blackwell’s “First of All” program with her take on the day’s events. “What happened was that these members of Congress, including the mayor as well a mob of protesters, was there was a bus full of detainees going through the gate,” she said. “They stormed the gate and actually entered the first security checkpoint.”
Asst Sec for Pub Affrs, Tricia McLaughlin on @rasjbaraka’s arrest, speaking w/@VictorBlackwell on @CNN : “They stormed the gate…We actually have body camera footage of some…members of congress assaulting our ICE informant officers including body slamming a female ICE officer.” pic.twitter.com/uFRTxg80Sa
— Michael Matthews (@mcm1071989) May 10, 2025
“This put law enforcement at risk, and this actually put the detainees as well at risk,” McLaughlin continued. “If any official, including these members of Congress, want to enter the facility and take a tour, DHS is more than accommodating, but just because you’re a member of Congress does not mean you can break the law, trespass, put law enforcement at risk, and storm the detention facility.”
In addition to Newark, New Jersey, Major Ras Baraka, who was arrested at the protest, McLaughlin claimed New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez, and LaMonica McIver were all present.
Elsewhere in the interview, McLaughlin said “multiple” people were arrested, and, “I think that we should let viewers know there will likely be more arrests coming.”
‘We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body slamming a female ICE officer, so we will be showing that to viewers very shortly,” McLaughlin added.
McLaughlin shared footage Saturday from the X account Trump War Room that purportedly shows Rep. McIver pushing an ICE agent. On Friday, McIver said in a press conference she was “assaulted by multiple ICE officers while regional directors of ICE watched it happen. Nobody offered an apology or said anything to me about what occurred out here.”
McLaughlin’s claims sparked pushback from Coleman’s office. “Threatening to arrest Members of Congress for exercising their lawful oversight authority is another example of this administration abusing its power to try to intimidate anyone to stands up to them,” a representative for the Congresswoman said in a statement, Axios reported.
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Chris Cuomo Interprets New Pope’s ‘Leo’ Moniker Choice as a Significant Sign: ‘Very Good News’ | Video
Chris Cuomo, NewsNation anchor and lifelong Catholic, says Pope Leo XIV’s first decision as pontiff – choosing his namesake – has a deeply significant meaning that should be “very good news” for working class Americans.
Born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, Pope Leo XIV was elected on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, on the fourth ballot.
“We have a pope, and I have a very interesting detail about Leo the 14th,” the former CNN host teased on his namesake NewsNation show. “It happens to be true – as opposed to all the projections that are being put onto this man. And I have heard no one discuss it yet. Shocked me until I realized, yeah, of course not, because our obsession is division.”
Cuomo noted one such nitpick from the right – that Prevost showed compassion for migrants in old Tweets – was hardly some kind of gotcha: “What do you expect a Catholic priest to say, let alone a Pope? And it doesn’t matter what he trafficked in on Twitter before because like his predecessors, we can expect that the institution of the church will wind up influencing the pope more than the other way around.”
Cuomo went deep on a history lesson before he finally got into his revelation about Pope Leo’s moniker choice, calling it “very good news … even if you are a-religious. What should matter to all Americans in particular is that there is something about the Pope that matters very much to what’s happening in America right now. I would say the timing is almost divine.”
The last Pope Leo – Leo XIII, whose long papacy spanned from the late 1800s into the early 20th Century – wrote extensively on the relationship between workers and employers. Or as we call it today, income inequality.
“Really surprised that I haven’t heard anything about this,” Cuomo continued. “He picked the namesake that suggests real implications about what he will think about what’s happening in this country in this moment. … More specifically, the rights and duties of capital and labor is what he laid out. And the church teaching was on the importance of balancing economic interest of the moneyed few with the dignity of the majority working class.”
Cuomo said no matter what you think of Donald Trump’s trade policies, their aim of getting better outcomes for more Americans is aligned with the writings of Pope Leo XIII – and the new Pope Leo would seem to agree.
“If the corporate class is taking a beating in the markets, [Trump] doesn’t care if it means better outcomes and deals for workers in the majority,” Cuomo concluded. “So if you can criticize Trump’s apparent lack of strategy and blunt-force tactics with the tariffs, but — and we are yet to see whether they are helpful or hurtful — if you get a better deal because of them or despite them, whatever. The balance of economic benefits and burdens, and who gets access to the American consumer market on what terms, is huge. And it’s exactly what Leo XIII was talking about.”
Watch the entire monologue in the video above.
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Charlize Theron Says Uma Thurman Deserved an Oscar for ‘Kill Bill’: ‘So Unbeliveable’ | Video
Uma Thurman should have won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1995, Charlize Theron told Jimmy Kimmel Friday night. “I think men get a lot of credit for these movies. … What she did in that film was just so unbelievable,” Theron said.
Theron and Thurman are co-stars in the upcoming Netflix film The Old Guard 2. “We knew each other kind of offhand, but I knew her from being a massive fan, just watching her work, and always wanted to do something with her,” Theron first told Kimmel. “Because when I came into the action world, she was really, to me, like, the sensei. She was the OG.”
The late night host then interjected, “I agree. She should’ve won the Academy Award for Kill Bill, right?” to which Theron answered, “A hundred percent.”
“To me, she’s just such a badass. So, since I’ve been in action movies, I’ve been like, ‘Who do I want to work with and do an action sequence with?’ It’s always been Uma Thurman. Always,” Theron added.
Thurman joined the cast of the action film in 2022. The movie is the follow-up to Netflix and Skydance’s 2020 action film about a secret group of mercenary killers, all of whom are immortal and have been fighting for centuries but have to fight to keep their identities secret when a new immortal member of their team is discovered. The movie was directed by Victoria Mahoney.
Theron also said Thurma is “intimidating” but added the actress is also “really sweet and kind and thoughtful, and so hardworking.”
“But I was definitely intimidated by her, especially when she showed up and she was given one sword and we had worked out this whole sequence and she went, ‘I think I want two swords,'” Theron added.
Watch the interview with Charlize Theron in the video above.
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John Legend Says Politics is Part of the Reason His Friendship with Kanye West Ended
The friendship between John Legend and Kanye West dwindled in part due to their pair’s different political beliefs, the “All of Me” singer said in an interview with The Times published Saturday. “I didn’t see a hint of what we’re seeing now, his obsessions with antisemitism, anti-blackness, and it is sad to see his devolution,” Legend said of his former friend.
While the singer believes that the death of West’s mother might have something to do with the dramatic changes that he’s undergone, he also told the outlet, “I don’t think we’re qualified to psychoanalyze him.”
Legend met West while working as a management consultant between 1999 and 2002. West signed the singer to his label, and Legend was part of the ride that surrounded the release of the rapper’s 2004 record The College Dropout. That afforded Legend opportunities he wasn’t getting otherwise, and all of a sudden the music industry was paying attention.
Elsewhere in the interview, Legend reflected on his own political motivations. At 15 he entered a nationwide essay competition on the topic “How Do You Plan to Make Black History?” At the time he was also estranged from his mother, who battled addiction.
“While you don’t wish that kind of thing on any kid, those challenges certainly make you more resilient,” Legend said. “You get a sense of independence, and you realise early on that when faced with adversity, you will figure out a way to make it through.”
Read the interview at The Times.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett Says Dems Already Backing ‘Safest White Boy’ for President in 2028: ‘One Specific Candidate’ | Video
Democrats are eying the “safest white boy” ahead of the 2028 election, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett told “Urban View” hosts Clay Cane and Reecie Colbert in a clip from a town hall shared online Friday. She didn’t name names, but suggested the party already has “one specific candidate” in mind.
In the clip shared by Cane, the group is speaking about potential candidates when Crockett offers her insight. “It is, it is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system, will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we’ve lost,” she explained.
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“So far. And I think that that’s a natural fear because we just want to win. So there’s a lot of people that are like, you know what? Like, let’s go find the safest white boy we can find. I mean, I’m just saying,” she added.
“No, for real. And to be clear, when we talk about them, I can tell you that there is one specific candidate,” Crockett continued. “I had a donor on the phone with me telling me that all the donors are lining up behind that candidate. So I can tell, and I tell you, it’s not a black person nor a woman, okay?”
The party — or “they” as she put it — “When I say ‘they,’ it’s the same donors that most likely had their opinions about Joe Biden and moved … So like, that would be the ‘they’ that I would talk about,” she said.
“Trump, who is a misogynist. Trump, who is going to ramp up the misogynists in the first place because that’s what he does. He is disrespectful,” she added. “Like, right now, he still doesn’t know how to deal with me because if you punch me, I’m punching back, okay? So, like, here’s the deal. Here’s the deal. Now, I know he think he’s running again, but that ain’t happening. I don’t care what all is going on in in this country, and I don’t care how many things we won’t say we are absolutely going to do. I am telling y’all with all confidence he is not running for a third term. That is not a thing.”
The clip is part of a town hall that will be released on May 15.
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Facing a ‘Cinematic Extinction Event,’ Hollywood Must Stage a Comeback | Guest Column
I write blogs that flirt with the periphery of the entertainment industry. I grew up the son of a well-known and flamboyant MGM secretary who bounced between directors and producers like Sam Peckinpah and Walter Shenson. For decades she worked for Cubby Broccoli, the producer who breathed life into James Bond. She caught rides to the commissary on Larry Hagman’s golf cart and was on a first name basis with Bob Dylan and Joan Crawford.
Mom would not believe what has happened to the industry she loved so well. She didn’t do poverty — she didn’t have to. A steady paycheck, health benefits, a sense of purpose … all from a below-the-line career that gave her an above-the-radar life. Working at MGM wasn’t just a job, it was belonging to something bigger.
Today, too many who followed her path are left out in the cold, wondering how the credits rolled this early. This industry that once built dreams is now breaking them — and perhaps most egregiously, threatening to wall off the very global voices that have enriched our screens since Edison cranked the first Kinetograph, by tariffing them out of existence.
Her grandson — gifted with an editor’s eye and a cinematographer’s soul — now slices brisket at the meat counter of an upscale market, praying his side hustle doesn’t become a life sentence. The winding private drive that once led to the Broccoli estate now shares a zip code with the bitter seep of sewage from tents pitched by society’s outliers — men and women without homes clinging to scraps of shelter in the world’s wealthiest nation. Former entertainment workers, once the engine of Hollywood dreams, see their future in those tents, as the skills and crafts that they’ve honed evaporate in the glare of automation and indifference. Two faces of the same crisis: both left behind, both casualties of a system that can’t — or won’t — protect its own.
My mother never knew words like “food insecurity.” In her Hollywood, there was always a steno pad. Her word processor was a No. 2 pencil, and she was fast. And A.I.? That wasn’t a threat — it was Albert Ives, some handsome actor she swore she dated back in ’47.
How did this happen?
Let’s break it down: Hollywood is reeling — from streaming-era disruption and dual union strikes to shrinking theatrical windows and a creative exodus. Many who once shaped cinematic magic now find themselves driving Uber or delivering DoorDash, editing reels only in their memories. And now, as the industry shakily tries to stand, it’s bracing for another body blow: a proposed 100% tariff on films made outside the United States. The move, pushed by President Donald Trump as a way to “protect American storytelling,” feels less like economic policy and more like cultural isolationism wrapped in an orange fist. Critics warn it could backfire, punishing the very U.S. studios that depend on global partnerships, locations and subsidies to survive. Instead of a lifeline, it’s a loaded glove. Drenched not just in economic peril, but in the sweat of political theater.
We barely had time to crawl out of the wreckage of the pandemic when right at its dawn, I experienced something that altered the course of my life. Something that carried a message so raw, so reflective of what our industry is going through, that I couldn’t shake it. It wasn’t just a metaphor. It was a body blow — not to my gut, but to my soul.
You’ll remember the early days of the pandemic. Los Angeles was stripped bare. No premieres. No paparazzi. No rush-hour traffic. Just silence.
It was on one of those ghosted days I was out driving and it felt like it was me, the Ventura Freeway, and nobody else. I exited the freeway at Laurel Canyon and there he was: A man on the off-ramp, holding a cardboard sign that simply read: “Hungry.”
No one around. No distractions. Just him. And me. And the stillness. That moment didn’t just haunt me. It rewired me, which can be a great experience when you’ve hit bottom. As an industry, aren’t we there, or damned close to it?
My story: I had spent years “building bridges” with my nonprofit The Man/Kind Initiative — uniting communities through empathy, awareness events and cultural truth-telling while also shooting music videos that recognized and celebrated diversity. This was my version of show-biz. We brought together Jews and Japanese Americans to honor Chiune Sugihara, the WWII Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews destined for the ovens. We fought against legislation that threatened after-school programs for inner city, food-insecure kids. We launched TEARS, a blistering series on racism and stereotyping, giving a microphone to voices often ignored. There was a lot to do, and my nonprofit was becoming a force of nature.
Until the pandemic cut it down. No theater to stage events — and try social distancing a 40-piece orchestra and choir. None of us were into fighting anything but our own personal battles, and there is no vaccine for surrender.
But on that day, with no traffic and nowhere to hide, that man refused to disappear. His defiance, like ours, isn’t loud — it’s existential. That guy’s battleground was the pavement. Not the editing bays or the conference rooms that are increasingly dormant.
We are losing talent to survival. And in the coming weeks, it’s only going to get worse. The tariffs are waiting in the wings like a vengeful understudy — lipsticked, caked in Wet ‘n’ Wild’s “Executive Spray Tan,” and seething under the kliegs. But this isn’t just bad casting. This is Skynet going live. These tariffs aren’t policy, they’re a cinematic extinction event. Think Judgment Day, but for collaboration, creativity and the international artistry that built modern film. The opening salvo has been fired, and if it lands the way some fear, it won’t just be Hollywood smoldering — it’ll be the whole reel-burning world stage.
But like that guy on the Laurel Canyon off-ramp, we will stand. Hungry, maybe, but unbroken. Even when there’s no traffic, no spotlight, no deadlines … we will come back. Because, this town doesn’t run on box office. It runs on belief. The belief that we will rebuild this industry like we will rebuild Altadena and Pacific Palisades.
So yeah, we’ve been binge-watched, underfunded and written off. Just remember that machine learning never had its heart broken and ChatGPT has never parachuted into a hot DMZ. This is a human industry — and after all, Hollywood has a flair for comebacks.
Now let’s get to work.
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The 7 Best New Movies Streaming on Peacock Right Now
While Peacock may be known for his huge slate of reality TV, each month the streamer drops off a wide selection of films every viewer can enjoy. And we’re here to list the best of the bunch.
From family-friendly flicks mixed to with some creepy thrillers that will keep you up at night, there’s nothing better than a good movie list to watch in your free time. Some of the films named below are ultimate classics, cinematic and cultural phenomenons, and others will prepare you upcoming spinoff projects.
Here’s our list of the seven best movies on Peacock this month.
Daniel Kaluuya in “Get Out” (Credit: Universal Pictures)“Get Out” (2017)When Jordan’s Peele’s psychological horror film hit theaters in 2017, it took audiences by storm with its twisted themes that spotlighted the exploitation of Black people and Black culture, structural racism and police brutality. Peele’s directorial debut, which features Daniel Kaluuya. When Chris’s (Kaluuya) girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) invites him to a weekend getaway to her family’s home so he can meet her parents, a series of strange events start to occur that lead ultimately lead him to discovering the dark truth behind her family’s accommodating behavior.
“Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” (Paramount Pictures)“Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory” (1971)Here’s one the entire family can watch. Before Timothée Chalamet and Johnny Depp gave cinema their take on Roald Dahl’s quirky chocolatier, it was good ‘ol Gene Wilder who stole our hearts in the 1971 family musical. After poverty-stricken Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) discovers a winning gold ticket in his chocolate bar wrapper, he’s travels to Willy Wonka’s magical factory where he meets his whacky group of fellow winners and embarks on an unforgettable adventure through Wonka’s candy-filled empire.
Artisan Entertainment“Requiem For a Dream” (2000)Many call it a one-watch viewing because of it’s dark, gritty and disturbing storyline. But on the flip side, it’s an ultimate classic that’s also been labeled throughout the years a must-see. The film tells the story of four drug-induced people on Coney Island whose lives become more hazardous as they fall deeper into their addictions.
Jet Li’s “Fearless” (Edko Films, China Film Group)“Fearless”In Jet Li’s “Fearless,” which the martial artist and actor marked as his last martial arts film, Li stars as Huo Yuanjia, a martial artist who’s taking a break from his craft to focus on the more important aspects of life after a devastating tragedy. But after his hiatus, he attempts to close up traumas from his past, which leads him into a fight that could cost his life.
“Legally Blonde” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM Studios)“Legally Blonde” (2001)Who doesn’t love a good romantic comedy tackles screwed up societal stereotypes about women and celebrates their independence? And let’s be honest, we’re always pulling for Reese Witherspoon. The actress stars as Elle Woods, a gorgeous and affluent college student who has it all — even a successful man. But when her guy gives her the boot because he no longer takes her seriously, she applies to Harvard University to prove to him that she’s got the beauty and brains. Make sure you watch this classic before you tune into the prequel series “Elle.”
“Belly” (Artisan Entertainment)“Belly” (1998)Hype Williams’ takes viewers in the gritty, unforgiving streets of New York City, where childhood friends, Tommy “Buns” Brown (DMX) and Sincere (Nas) grew up to be high-profile gangsters. No longer interested in a life of crime, Sincere joins a Muslim religious group while Buns delves deeper into his drug dealing empire. However, the two’s worlds collide when Buns is offered a deal to take down the Muslim group’s leader or serve time in prison.
“Life of Pi (20th Century Studios)“Life of Pi” (2012)Based on Yann Martel’s bestselling novel of the same name is the coming-of-age story, “Life of Pi.” With director Ang Lee in the director’s chair, viewers set off on an adventure with Pi Patel (Gautam Belur), a teenage boy whose been left alone on a life boat with a bengal tiger after his parents were washed away by a terrible storm. Over time, the two beings must learn to trust one another if they want to make it to the shore alive.
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John Cleese Suggests ‘Suspending’ Trump Chief of Staff Stephen Miller – ‘Preferably by the Neck’
John Cleese lashed out at White House chief of staff Stephen Miller after the latter said habeas corpus could be suspended for migrants in federal custody. In a post shared on X Saturday, the actor and comedian suggested “we actively think about suspending” Miller – “preferably by the neck.”
“I see Stephen Miller says he is actively thinking about suspending ‘habeas corpus’,” the actor wrote in full. “As this has been the keystone of the Rule of Law for centuries, I’d like to suggest that we actively think about suspending Stephen Miller… Preferably by the neck.”
I see Stephen Miller says he is actively thinking
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 10, 2025
about suspending 'habeas corpus'
As this has been the keystone of the Rule of Law for centuries, I'd like to suggest that we actively think about
suspending Stephen Miller…
Preferably by the neck
On Friday Miller told reporters the White House is “actively looking” into suspending habeas corpus, which allows an individual in custody to challenge the circumstances and legality of their detention, for migrants who are in federal custody.
“The Constitution is clear — and that, of course, is the supreme law of the land — that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in time of invasion,” Miller said. “So, that’s an option we’re actively looking at.”
The Trump administration has previously argued the United States faces an “invasion” of immigrants.
Ther are several pending cases against the Trump administration’s deportation of migrants based on habeas corpus claims. Miller added that the administration’s path forward on the matter “depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”
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