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We are 292 former career employees who proudly served our country at the Department of Justice. From prosecutors, special agents, and intelligence analysts to immigration judges, grant managers, civil rights attorneys and more, we all…

It is about Paul Revere's ride in April 1775, as he sounded the alarm about military troops marching on American cities; one lantern if the British were attacking by land and two lanterns if they were attacking by sea. He rang the alarm…

They burned down the Presidential palace. They shot the President. Maybe they killed his family. They tore up the Constitution, and they said: Here is the new deal. But now that rarely happens in comparison to the new version in which…

Thank you, Senator. I not only agree, but I so admire what you accomplished. It is so frustrating. Why can't we accomplish that again? I know one of our Members worked hard with my colleague across the aisle to do a bill that may have been…

Or more. And this body can't even come together and address children brought here through no fault of their own, who know no other country, who speak no other language, who grew up here and are productive citizens. Many of them, when we…

I very much appreciate your zeroing in on this question of how the President is violating the law and the Constitution by taking the power of the purse, but before I address that, I want to thank you for going to El Salvador to visit…

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That is horrific that he is flying away. He absolutely should be sitting down right now and holding a conversation with you about how we solve this problem for millions of Americans.

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million-- That is a lot of money. For folks in my neighborhood, $1 million seems like an unfathomable sum, and here, we are talking about $230 million, a quarter…

I think I would get zero takers. By the way, where is the legislation that gives the President the power to give $20 billion or $40 billion to Argentina? I haven't looked it up yet. I am going to look it up, but I think it is exactly a…

My colleague has described very well the way this works. In the past, in general, you had military coups. People with guns stormed in, took over, shredded the constitution, tossed it out, had command of the armed forces. Indeed, it was an…

But here we have evidence of the President tearing down a symbol of our Republic and building a symbol that is really a symbol about authoritarian power, about a government that serves the rich. Just the fact that we are spending money on…

I am so pleased that so many have been able to come from the caucus and help ring the alarm bells, because this is the most perilous moment for our Republic since the Civil War, and never did I expect it to be in my time. I thought, yes…

When I think about these last few years, I am concerned that the military has been substantially politicalized. I may be wrong about that because I don't have that view from inside. But I think about how the President gave the speech to…

Well, I so appreciate the question from my colleague from Minnesota, and the commentary I was giving is more my distillment, my impression of the information in this book rather than a straight-out quote from it. But essentially, in the…

--and they said: Here is how it happened. They said: We used to think about the end of a democracy as being something done with men with guns.

Every time I think about Ukraine, I think about how fiercely, including in the Orange Revolution, in which they did so much to say: No, we will not be taken over by Russia; we will not be put under the thumb of Russia by one of our…

I have thought that the norms that we have in America are norms that make a great deal of sense because they have a value associated with them, and that value is the fair administration of justice without prejudice, the fair administration…