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Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Feb 13, 2025

Like a bull in a china shop, Mr. Musk is wielding an enormous amount of illegitimized power over sensitive systems and important government programs that are vital to the American way of life.

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Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Feb 13, 2025

DOGE's ransacking of federal agencies has sown tremendous chaos, instilled distrust among the American people, and has caused deep harm to our country.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Feb 13, 2025

Worse still, Trump installed Elon Musk at the head of that agency without vetting and Senate confirmation, and Musk has proceeded to use that unconstitutional appointment to try to cut the federal government to the bone.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Feb 13, 2025

Donald Trump seems to think a narrow electoral victory makes him into a king. He could not be more wrong.

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Dana Nessel
@dananessel· MI· Feb 12, 2025

No cabinet secretary or director has the ability to just wholesale eliminate a congressionally created agency. It was created through an act of Congress. It can only be eliminated through an act of Congress.

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Dana Nessel
@dananessel· MI· Feb 12, 2025

We've never had a special employee of the president behave as basically a super cabinet secretary who has authority over every single agency in federal government.

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Brenna Bird
@brennabird· IA· Feb 12, 2025

President Trump is right: we must restore the meaning and value of American citizenship.

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Rob Bonta
@robbonta· CA· Feb 12, 2025

President Trump may believe that he is above the law, but this injunction sends a clear message: he cannot rewrite the Constitution with the stroke of a pen.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Feb 12, 2025

We just won a court order blocking President Trump's hateful and unlawful executive order on birthright citizenship.

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Kris Mayes
@krismayes· AZ· Feb 12, 2025

President Trump has delegated virtually unchecked authority to Mr. Musk without proper legal authorization from Congress and without meaningful supervision of his activities.

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Kris Mayes
@krismayes· AZ· Feb 12, 2025

The founders of this country would be outraged that, 250 years after our nation overthrew a king, the people of this country—many of whom have fought and died to protect our freedoms—are now subject to the whims of a single unelected…

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Feb 12, 2025

Our state laws, including the Green Light law, protect the rights of all New Yorkers and keep our communities safe.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Feb 11, 2025

President Trump does not have the power to give away Americans’ private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Feb 11, 2025

Our state laws, including the Green Light law, protect the rights of all New Yorkers and keep our communities safe. I am prepared to defend our laws, just as I always have.

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Kris Mayes
@krismayes· AZ· Feb 11, 2025

I am confident that executions can now proceed in compliance with state and federal law.

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Kris Mayes
@krismayes· AZ· Feb 11, 2025

We are on the brink of a dictatorship, and America has never been in a more dangerous position than she is today.

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Kathy Jennings
@kathyjennings· DE· Feb 11, 2025

He was elected president, but no one put a crown on this guy's head.

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Alan Wilson
@alanwilson· SC· Feb 10, 2025

It is clear that Attorney General Alan Wilson has built his career on protecting the most vulnerable in our state; any statement otherwise is blatantly false and politically motivated.

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Ken Paxton
@kenpaxton· TX· Feb 10, 2025

Republicans deserve better in their next leader and Texans deserve another conservative senator.

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Keith Ellison
@keithellison· MN· Feb 9, 2025

This is really outrageous. It's completely unprecedented and I believe that the courts are going to make the right decision.

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