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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 19, 2025

This presents a great opportunity for the state of Florida to work with Miami-Dade and Collier counties.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 19, 2025

People get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons. Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 19, 2025

It presents an efficient, low-cost opportunity to build a temporary detention facility because you don't need to invest that much in the perimeter.

newsweek.com
James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 19, 2025

Alligator Alcatraz: the one-stop shop to carry out President Trump's mass deportation agenda.

newsweek.com
Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Jun 17, 2025

While no amount of money can fully heal the destruction they caused, these funds will save lives and help our communities fight back against the opioid crisis.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Jun 17, 2025

For decades, the Sacklers put profits over people, and played a leading role in fueling the epidemic of opioid addictions and overdoses.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 17, 2025

She’s issuing this order and saying you gotta tell them all to stand down. I’m not gonna do that.

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James Uthmeier
@jamesuthmeier· FL· Jun 17, 2025

This judge is considering whether or not to hold me in contempt. But I am not going to rubber-stamp her order.

nbcnews.com
Gentner Drummond
@gentnerdrummond· OK· Jun 16, 2025

Unlike past prosecutors, who allowed a key witness to lie on the stand, my office will make sure Mr. Glossip receives a fair trial based on hard facts, solid evidence, and truthful testimony.

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Gentner Drummond
@gentnerdrummond· OK· Jun 16, 2025

While it was clear to me and to the U.S. Supreme Court that Mr. Glossip did not receive a fair trial, I have never proclaimed his innocence.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Jun 13, 2025

Free and fair elections are the foundation of this nation, and no president has the power to steal that right from the American people.

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Jun 12, 2025

This is what authoritarians do. None of us is safe from this regime.

commondreams.org
Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 12, 2025

These unlawful deployments have already proven to be a deeply inflammatory and unnecessary provocation.

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Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 11, 2025

Let me be clear: There is no invasion. There is no rebellion. The President is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends.

truthout.org
Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 11, 2025

There is no invasion or rebellion in Los Angeles, only the kind of civil unrest that occurs from time to time that is typically the purview of local law enforcement.

nbcnews.com
Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 11, 2025

Defendants, including President Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth have sought to bring military personnel and a ‘warrior culture’ to the streets of cities and towns where Americans work, go to school and raise their families.

nbcnews.com
Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 11, 2025

The federalized National Guard and active-duty Marines deployed in Los Angeles will engage in quintessential law enforcement activity in violation of the PCA.

nbcnews.com
Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 10, 2025

President Trump's order calling federalized National Guard troops into Los Angeles — over the objections of the Governor and local law enforcement — is unnecessary and counterproductive.

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Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 9, 2025

Let me be clear: There is no invasion. There is no rebellion.

nbcnews.com
Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Jun 9, 2025

Violates the state’s sovereign right to control and have available its National Guard

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