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We are going to make sure that our local jurisdictions are going to follow the Constitution.

I am not vouching for Mr. Abrego Garcia, but I am vouching for his constitutional right to due process, because if Donald Trump can ignore court orders and trample over the rights of one man, he threatens the rights of everyone who lives…

Today our constituents across the country are demanding that elected officials be organizers, strategists, and leaders for democratic opposition to authoritarianism in America.

Trump is weaponizing, distorting, and exploiting the reality of antisemitism to attack academic freedom … the Senate should oppose Trump’s further transparent moves to undermine American democracy under the banner of opposing antisemitism.

My comments are my heartfelt comments for my friend Gerry.

I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind — what’s blowing this way, what’s blowing that way.

This president, with his approval ratings underwater and sinking like a stone, is desperately seeking to undermine his political opposition by cutting off their access to funding.

This is a fundamental constitutional issue, and it is a crisis because the Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration has to help facilitate his return to the United States.

Put up or shut up in federal court.

This goes to the heart of protecting people’s rights and what bullies do and what authoritarian leaders do.

I keep saying I’m not vouching for Abrego Garcia. I’m vouching for his constitutional rights because all our rights are at stake.

This is not a case about just one man whose constitutional rights are being ignored and disrespected, because, when you trample on the constitutional rights of one man, as the courts have all said is happening in this case, you threaten…

They go to great lengths to deceive people, and that's what you saw, because they got – these government guys essentially told the waiters to bring these drinks that appear to look like margaritas to the table.

I was not there to litigate all the details of his case. I was there to make sure that he was still alive and check on his health.

They go to great lengths to deceive people.

The administration has presented no evidence linking Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or to any other terrorist activity.

I say, put up or shut up in court.

Well, I know his answer. His answer, he has made repeatedly, including in court, which is that he is not.