Dick Durbin: “Human rights protections from law enforcement abuses are embedded in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

For decades, America has stood as the bastion of freedom against tyranny, and American presidents have embodied our nation’s resistance to tyrants. Putin is a tyrant.

To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

The lack of community involvement and speed with which this project has moved forward raises questions about the role of private interests.