Weekend Quotables

Mass deportations of Venezuelans to Salvadorian prisons violate court orders. D.T. says, 'If I do it, it's constitutional.'

Masked prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S. to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on Sunday in violation of a federal judge’s court order.

Quotables

Sen. Bernie Sanders

The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats. An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill. — X

Pres. Trump

“Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned,” Trump spewed. “He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.” —Public Notice

Melanie Joly, Canadian Foreign Minister

"What I said to the secretary is Canada's sovereignty is not up to debate, period," she said at the closing news conference of the G7 foreign ministers meeting.

"There's no argument, there's no conversation about it, there's no need to talk about it," she said. "You're here, you respect us, you respect our sovereignty, you're in our country, you respect our people. Period." — Politico

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot

"...Yes, it's reminiscent of the McCarthy period in the '50s, but it's sounding more like Nazi Germany in the '30s." — Hitting Left

Veronica Cardenas, former ICE lawyer

Mass deportations don’t make us safer. I saw this firsthand in my 13 years as an assistant chief counsel for Ice. The US immigration system was not designed to grant due process or ensure fairness; instead, it was built to prioritize deportation as a fallback when criminal prosecutions weren’t politically desirable or feasible. — Guardian

Arwa Mahdawi

And let’s be very clear here: doing anything in support of Palestinians – or simply existing as a Palestinian – seems enough to count as being “pro-terrorist, antisemitic, [and] anti-American” for Trump, who has repeatedly used the word “Palestinian” as a slur. — Guardian

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PRESS SEC. KAROLINE LEAVITT — "The fact is, everything President Trump is doing is within his executive authority to do it ... all of his actions are constitutional."

CNN — The White House doesn’t have the power to decree whether court orders are lawful.