The President is not a king and is not above the law. We will press forward with our challenge to President Trump’s authoritarian use of U.S. military soldiers against citizens.

We should never use a person’s need to go to the doctor against them.

Body blow to our economy.

What we've seen here should not be normalized.

This is now defining for the Democratic Party.

Don’t come.… If you do, you will be turned back.

This will only lead to more chaos and pain in our communities.

I'm OK. But if they can do that to me, a United States senator...what are they doing to a lot of folks out there when the cameras are not on?

A RED LINE has been crossed. Trump is prosecuting his political enemies in Congress. This is just the beginning.

The deployment is a chaotic escalation.

The curfew played into the hands of federal officials who were attempting to depict Los Angeles as out of control.

It's really hard to imagine someone doing a worse job as the secretary of homeland security.

Deploying an extra 2,000 personnel would be Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.

This isn’t a new deployment — it’s the same group of soldiers who have been diverted from critical wildfire work and work at the border, now twiddling their thumbs for Donald Trump’s political theater.

If that’s what they’ll do to a United States Senator for having the audacity to simply ask a question, imagine what they’ll do to any American who dares to speak up.

The law doesn’t apply to us, and we don’t answer to you.

Donald Trump wants a spectacle not just to distract from his failed policies, but to justify his undemocratic crackdowns and his authoritarian power grabs.

power grab