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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 24, 2025

This is not about me. This is about all of us and about a justice system which has been weaponized, a justice system which has been used as a tool of revenge … and a weapon against those individuals who simply did their job and who stood…

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 23, 2025

The president’s actions are a grave violation of our Constitutional order and have drawn sharp criticism from members of both parties.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 23, 2025

These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 23, 2025

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Oct 22, 2025

We’re gonna throw the book at him and send a clear message: If you call for violence, you will be punished, you will do as much time as possible in the state of Florida. We have zero tolerance for it.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Oct 22, 2025

This individual — clearly demented — was calling for the death of several in conservative media, using antisemitic verbiage in his threats.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Oct 21, 2025

So the rampant corruption of this regime, what kind of threat does this blatant corruption pose to our democracy, our institutions, and the American people?

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Kris Mayes
@krismayes· AZ· Oct 21, 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson is actively stripping the people of Arizona of one of their seats in Congress and disenfranchising the voters of Arizona’s seventh Congressional district in the process.

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Kris Mayes
@krismayes· AZ· Oct 21, 2025

We will not sit quietly while 813,000 Arizonans are treated as second-class citizens.

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Kris Mayes
@krismayes· AZ· Oct 21, 2025

Arizona will not beg for its full representation in Congress.

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Dan Rayfield
@danrayfield· OR· Oct 20, 2025

Today’s ruling, if allowed to stand, would give the president unilateral power to put Oregon soldiers on our streets with almost no justification. We are on a dangerous path in America.

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Jay Jones
@jayjones· VA· Oct 17, 2025

His office hasn’t done a thing because he’s too weak and too scared to stand up to the president.

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Jay Jones
@jayjones· VA· Oct 17, 2025

When Donald Trump fires workers, defunds our schools and levies tariffs that destroy our regional economies, sends armed troops into cities and defunds law enforcement, he has a willing cheerleader here in Jason Miyares who will not step…

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Jay Jones
@jayjones· VA· Oct 17, 2025

Let me be very clear. I am ashamed, I am embarrassed, and I’m sorry.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 16, 2025

We will always fight to ensure that New York gets the resources we need to support our law enforcement and keep people safe.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 16, 2025

A court has once again affirmed that this administration cannot punish New York by arbitrarily wiping out critical security resources and defunding law enforcement that keeps riders safe.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 16, 2025

This ruling protecting critical counterterrorism funding is a victory for every New Yorker who rides our subways, buses, and commuter rails.

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Jay Jones
@jayjones· VA· Oct 16, 2025

Let me be clear: I am ashamed. I am embarrassed. And I am sorry.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 15, 2025

We are witnessing the fraying of our democracy, the erosion of our system of government.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 15, 2025

We see powerful voices trying to silence truth and punish dissent and weaponize justice for political gain.

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Kris Mayes
@krismayes· AZ· Oct 15, 2025

I’m prepared to take the matter to court if he continues to resist.

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