Fox News commentator Mehek Cooke said Sunday that President Donald Trump should consider suspending core legal rights if the Supreme Court won’t support his immigration crackdown, suggesting the justices “can’t understand the rule of law.”
In a segment with host Kevin Corke, Cooke defended Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s controversial suggestion to suspend habeas corpus — the right to challenge detention in court — to stop undocumented migrants from receiving due process.
“Look, Kevin, I think the first and the last line of defense today are our courts,” Cooke said. “And when you have judicial activism where courts aren’t following the rule of law, then President Trump has to look at every single constitutional option, and it has to be on the table, such as suspending habeas corpus.”
Cooke blamed the Supreme Court for not supporting Trump’s hardline immigration efforts and said the justices had failed to uphold the law.
“President Trump has a constitutional duty to protect the American people under Article 2,” she said. “The Supreme Court’s decision previously has been misguided. The Supreme Court has told President Trump he needs to pause and allow for these trials to occur for every single illegal alien. But at the end of the day, it’s public safety and national security that’s going to trump habeas corpus.”
By the end of the interview, Cooke made her position crystal clear: Trump should act, even if the Supreme Court says otherwise.
“President Trump should be looking at suspending habeas corpus if the Supreme Court cannot understand that the rule of law is with him and not these judicial activist judges,” she said.
The statement marks a dramatic escalation in right-wing rhetoric — arguing that a president should bypass the nation’s highest court and strip legal protections if the court disagrees with him.
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