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Stephen Miller has privately voiced a fear that pardon power won't be enough to protect him once President Donald Trump leaves office.

A new Zeteo profile of the White House deputy chief of staff, highlighted Wednesday by emptywheel's Marcy Wheeler, reported that Miller has told people he believes local and state prosecutors are out to put him in a "prison cell." As Zeteo pointed out, a federal pardon doesn't shut down state or local prosecutions the way it would a federal case.

Miller's worries reportedly go beyond criminal charges. According to Zeteo, he has also talked about civil lawsuits and congressional investigations, and he has expressed concern that a future Democratic administration could look for creative ways around Trump's clemency. He has also complained that the left will use "lawfare" to drain him and his wife, podcaster and former Trump official Katie Miller, financially for years to come....

A former federal prosecutor says that the Trump administration burned its last shred of goodwill with a judge who once trusted it.

Speaking on a Tuesday episode of his "Talking Feds" show, former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman said U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes has put the Justice Department "in the penalty box sort of permanently" after crews tore out hundreds of trees at Washington's East Potomac Golf Course without the advance notice she ordered.

"Scratch one more federal judge from the ranks of judges who will ever trust the Trump administration," Litman said....

Stephen Miller says Americans owe their amazing energy prices to Donald Trump. Critics saw it differently.

Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, appeared Saturday on Fox News’ “My View with Lara Trump.” The segment ran under the banner “Miller touts Trump’s sweeping achievements.”

“The reason we have lower energy prices than anyone else in the developed world is because of President Trump,” Miller said, according to a clip posted by Acyn....

A longtime Trump ally has an awkward confession about Katie Miller, according to a Vanity Fair profile of the couple's social life: they privately can't stand her, but they'd never say no to her.

Katie hosts parties and runs a podcast, and the ally explained why that matters. Publicly, the ally says they love her. In private, they don't. But the calculation is simple.

"If she asks you to go on the podcast, or come over for dinner, you say yes, because Stephen Miller is the second-most powerful person in the world," the ally said....

White House adviser Stephen Miller visited FBI headquarters just days before federal prosecutors charged a man accused of harassing his wife, a visit former Justice Department officials called unusual.

Stephen Miller spoke at a training conference for FBI counterterrorism agents on Sept. 29, multiple sources told CBS News in a report published Thursday.

Two days later, federal prosecutors in Boston charged John Anthony Proia III with cyberstalking Stephen Miller's wife, podcaster Katie Miller, and her family, the network reported. Proia, 41, has pleaded not guilty....

A former FBI official warned "something is very wrong" after the bureau demoted two supervisors over calls to Stephen Miller's wife.

Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director, made the remarks in a Saturday episode of "The Jim Acosta Show," where he and the former CNN anchor discussed a wave of turmoil at the bureau.

Acosta cited an MS NOW report that two veteran FBI counterterrorism supervisors were removed from their jobs after a disagreement over an investigation into alleged harassing phone calls made to Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. The FBI confirmed the demotions....