Top Trump Adviser Stephen Miller BRAWLS With CNN Anchor Over ‘Communist, Crazy Judges’

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller brawled with CNN’s Pamela Brown over the Trump administration’s criticism of the judicial branch on Friday, with Miller even going so far as to upbraid Brown for her allegedly “lazy assumptions.”

The thrown down began with Brown observing that the Supreme Court had handed the administration a win on the immigration front earlier in the day before observing, ” Yet even just yesterday we saw, whenever a judge rules against this administration, you say they’re going rogue. Do you think a judge should just rubber stamp what your White House does. If not, what checks and balances do you think should be in place for this White House?”

“It is not the job of a district court judge to perform an individual green light or red light on every single policy that the president takes as the head of the executive branch,” replied Miller. “Just think about the premise baked into your question, respectfully, Pam. You’re saying that when the American people elect a president of the United States of America-,”

“I’m not saying that,” protested Brown.

“Well, it’s the implication,” insisted Miller who said he would “answer the question happily,” but argued that “when you have these kinds of lazy assumptions built into questions, it makes it hard to have a constructive dialogue.”

“What is a lazy assumption?” asked an incredulous Brown.

“When you say, ‘Do we think district court judges should rubber stamp each action?’ there is a premise that is built into that that is absurd. The president is the sole head of the executive branch, he’s the only officer in the entire government that’s elected by the entire American people. Democracy cannot function — in fact, democracy does not exist at all — if each action the president takes, foreign policy, diplomatic, military, national security, has to be individually approved by 700 district court judges. That’s democracy? So if there’s 15 communist, crazy judges on the court, that each of them as a team working together can block, and freeze each and every executive action?”

“Some of them are Trump judges, though,” observed Brown. “Why did Trump put these crazy, communist judges, as you call them, on the bench?

“You heard President Trump himself say that the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo has created a broken system for judicial vetting,” shot back Miller.

“He did say that. So does that mean he doesn’t support picking Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court?” asked Brown.

Watch the full, fiery exchange above via CNN.