WATCH: Stephen Miller Clashes With CNN Over ‘Rogue Judges’ and Executive Authority

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller went head-to-head with CNN anchor Pamela Brown in a fiery exchange that underscored the growing divide between constitutional conservatives and the activist judiciary.

During the segment, Brown referenced a significant legal victory for President Donald Trump at the Supreme Court, which upheld his administration’s decision to revoke temporary protected status for certain migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Attempting to frame her narrative around judicial oversight, she challenged Miller’s earlier remarks about “rogue” judges, asking, “Do you think a judge should just rubber stamp what your White House does? If not, what checks and balances should be in place?”

Miller didn’t hold back.

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

Before Miller could finish, Brown interjected. But Miller swiftly pushed back:

“Well, it’s the implication,” he stated. “But look, when you have these kinds of lazy assumptions built into questions, it makes it hard to have constructive dialogue. You said, ‘Is it my expectation…?’ It’s not just you, it’s the whole media…”

Miller dismantled the idea that district judges should act as de facto gatekeepers to presidential authority:

“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 is elected by the entire American people,” he explained.

And he didn’t stop there.

“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?”

Miller took direct aim at left-wing judicial activism:

“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? Joe Biden was allowed by that same court system 20 million illegal foreigners into this country.”

Brown, seemingly rattled, asked why the president would appoint judges who later ruled against him. The conversation then turned to the Federalist Society, which had influenced judicial nominations during President Trump’s first term. Miller was blunt:

“What it means is simply this and nothing more: We’re not going to be using the Federalist Society to make judicial nominations at all going forward.”

She pressed further, questioning whether President Trump regretted nominating Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who had been vetted by the organization. But Miller stayed focused.

“But let me tell you about these rogue judges. This is the most litigated issue over the last ten years—whether or not to deport the foreigners who invaded our country illegally. That is the most litigated issue.”

He continued by exposing the double standard in how the courts treated President Trump versus Biden:

“You want a democracy in this country? When Americans vote, when they cry out and they beg for a president to come and save them from this invasion, and some district court judge in San Francisco or Manhattan or Los Angeles tries to shut it down and shield these foreigners from deportation—while the courts did nothing to stop Joe Biden and his administration and his officers and Mayorkas from overseeing this invasion?”

Miller concluded by celebrating the Trump administration’s resilience and reaffirming the importance of the Supreme Court’s latest intervention:

“And of course we celebrate the fact the Supreme Court stepped in—and actually celebrate with the Trump administration, the previous one, with Biden. But nobody stopped Joe Biden from flooding this country with foreign invaders.”

WATCH the full exchange here: