JB Pritzker

This post falls clearly within the ambit of protected political speech. The Supreme Court has made clear that even hyperbolic or what some might consider intemperate political expression, it's protected unless it crosses the line into a real threat, a true threat.

— Perry Carbone, law professor at Pace University and former chief of the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan

Kristi Noem doesn’t know how to hold a gun or run the Department of Homeland Security.

— Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego wrote on Instagram at the time criticizing Noem’s gun safety and leadership of the DHS.

Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions, another setback to the idea of the rule of law, an offense to common decency. Every day, you wake up to new things you just didn't think were possible. Each day we're told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other, and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don't even count it all.

— Barack Obama at the funeral service for Reverend Jesse Jackson