Actor John Cleese Floats Hanging Trump Chief ‘By The Neck’ Over Habeus Corpus Threat: ‘Actively Think About It’

British actor and comedian John Cleese suggested Saturday morning that Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff, should be hanged.

In response to Miller’s Friday comments about potentially suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus for migrants in federal custody, Cleese floated a public execution.

Cleese wrote on his X page, “I see Stephen Miller says he is actively thinking 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.”

The statement was posted hours after Miller, speaking from the White House, said the administration was “actively looking” into whether the country’s immigration issues were grounds to take extreme measures.

“The border crisis is a form of invasion, and that gives us legal grounds to pursue every possible remedy,” Miller said.

He added that recent court decisions have made it difficult for immigration authorities to expedite removals and that the administration was examining ways to bypass legal obstacles.

Habeas corpus is a legal protection that allows individuals to challenge the legality of their detentions before a judge. Miller’s comments Friday read in full:

Well, 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 a time of invasion. So, I would say that’s an option we’re actively looking at.

Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not. At the end of the day, Congress passed a body of law, known as the Immigration and Nationality Act, which stripped Article III courts, that’s the judicial branch, of jurisdiction over immigration cases. So, Congress actually passed, it’s called jurisdiction-stripping legislation. It passed a number of laws that say that the Article III courts aren’t even allowed to be involved in immigration cases.

Miller serves as a senior adviser to Trump and has played a central role in shaping immigration policy in both of his administrations.