Richard Gee

#lawyer, baseball fan, trad music enthusiast.

[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

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[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

Well said. @JDVance is a putz.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Forrest Gump ran toward danger in Vietnam. Your boss ran to his podiatrist crying bone spurs.

Petty insults at the expense of people with disabilities won't change the fact that you're risking troops' lives to boost Chevron's stock price.

It's my job to hold you accountable.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

Truly a stupid comment. And @JDVance knows it.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

How about federal law enforcement. Should they feel safe calling 911? Right now, they don't, because you've told your police officers not to help them.

[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

So, we reserve the right to decide who was properly elected and remove those persons with military power whenever we see fit anywhere in the world? That does sound like a coherent foreign policy, @StateDept. It turns 50 years of American foreign policy on its head.

[Department of State @StateDept]

.@SecRubio lays it out clearly: "We didn't remove an elected official. We removed someone who was not elected, and it was actually an indicted drug trafficker in the United States."

[Abp. José H. Gomez @ArchbishopGomez]

I am deeply troubled by the violence in Minneapolis and the ongoing climate of fear and uncertainty here in Los Angeles and in cities across the country, as federal immigration enforcement actions continue.

[Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera]

We were told that ICE was going to target the worst of the worst criminal aliens. That did not happen. It could never happen using brute force with the emphasis on grabbing any undocumented immigrant within reach.
Target the criminals. Leave the good people alone. America needs sensible immigration reform.

[Joe Wilson @RepJoeWilson]

Why is the Arizona-based Rogers Corporation making components that wind up in Russia's state-of-the-art air defense systems? American companies need to do more to control the exports of their technology so they aren't used in Russian war crimes in Ukraine. My letter to the Rogers Corporation.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

If Tim Walz deserves prison for presiding over fraud less than 1/10th this size, what does Greg Abbott deserve?

[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

Believe what we say, not what you see.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Homeland Security officers have fired shots during enforcement arrests or at people protesting their operations 16 times since July.

In each case, the Trump administration has declared their actions justified before investigations are completed. https://t.co/yX9dTLvijR

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Homeland Security officers have fired shots during enforcement arrests or at people protesting their operations 16 times since July.

In each case, the Trump administration has declared their actions justified before investigations are completed. https://t.co/yX9dTLvijR

[Matthew Miller @matthewamiller]

I thought we already “obliterated” their nuclear program seven months ago. And that the current threat of military action was about the treatment of protesters. What is our actual strategic objective here?

[Will Saletan @saletan]

ICE agent barges into a consulate (against treaty obligations) and when confronted says “If you touch me, I’ll grab you.”

This is a big part of what Congress must rein in: the agency’s sense of unlimited power, coupled with pursuit of physical escalation. https://t.co/8aIkYMnyvf

[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

We look like idiots to the world. Deservedly so.

[Bo Benemann Bischoff🌻 @Bobischoff]

Staff from the US embassy in Denmark had the audacity to remove the 44 Danish flags bearing the names of each of the 44 fallen Danish warriors from a public area outside the embassy.

A part of the No Words manifestation for our fallen in the War on Terror

Lost for words.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

ICE set off an international incident in Minneapolis today because agents tried to go into the Consulate of Ecuador without permission, and then yelled at their staff for trying to keep them out.

Note that there is a huge “consulate of Ecuador” sign over the door.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Trump could not have designed a better statement to convince Judge Menendez that Operation Metro Surge is meant to coerce policy changes.

Courts have ruled repeatedly that the Fed govt cannot coerce states to enforce federal law. Nor is it illegal for states to decline to do so.

And the menacing “playing with fire” is exactly the kind of statement (“retribution is coming”) that worked against the administration in court earlier this week.

[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

ICE needs to be disbanded and reconstituted. These guys are just mobsters with badges.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

“Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them.”

[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

@ScottJenningsKY is gaslighting us here. He knows this is a half truth. Enforcing federal law is not the issue. Using federal forces to intimidate and coerce citizens and state governments - including by extrajudicial killings and illegal searches and seizures- is.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

What President Trump is trying to do in MN is not controversial. He's simply enforcing *existing* federal law.

Even Bill Clinton & Barack Obama saw the issue clearly when they served.

[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

Nonsense. What @StateDept wants is a docile state that votes in lockstep with the US, regardless of what its people think or want. How on earth is that different than what Russia is trying to do in Ukraine?

[Department of State @StateDept]

“The end state here is we want to reach a phase of transition where we are left with a friendly, stable, prosperous Venezuela. ” — @SecRubio

[Richard Gee @kenbridge1]

And MAGA wonders why anyone would want to defund ICE? This is what they do with our money.

[Congressman Seth Magaziner @Rep_Magaziner]

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.