The Trump administration is "actively looking at" suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is the right to challenge the legality of a person's detention by the government, senior adviser Stephen Miller said.

The "privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended at a time of invasion. So I would say that’s an action we’re actively looking at," Miller told reporters outside the White House.

Stephen Miller’s threat to suspend habeas corpus is a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s erection of a political dictatorship.