New Jersey Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia LOSES IT on Democrats passing illegal immigration laws "What don't a room full of lawyers understand?"

x.com ^ | 4/15/2026

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New Jersey Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia LOSES IT on Democrats passing illegal immigration laws

“For the love of God and all that is good. Can you differentiate between the fact that we don't make laws that control the federal government? My God, what are we doing here? I'm not a lawyer. I was an English teacher and I comprehend that my fifth grade middle school English students would understand it.

I am coming to you not from a point of ideology because I know in the minority party, we already lost that argument. You guys are way, way out in the ether with that. I'm not even hoping to win the ideology. I'm hoping to win the logical argument to say, why do we keep passing laws that are gonna end up in court? We lose and the taxpayer gets shafted over and over and over.

You cannot vote yes for a law that controls local, county, state, and federal. No, Federal has gotta come off for this to count, but the only reason why you're passing it is to affect federal agents — Hello? Lights on, no one's home. I'm not an attorney. I need a freakin' honorary degree after going through this for four hours yesterday saying, 'What don't a room full of lawyers understand?' Ludicrous. Oh my goodness. Thank you.”

April 14, 2026

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: democrattruth; qanon

[Flaming Conservative]

Nice speech, Ms. Fantasia. If they had any scruples, they’d be ashamed, but they don’t, so they aren’t.

[teeman8r]

Jersey Girls are so much fun.

[MichaelRDanger]

So another Democrat joins Fetterman as very liberal but not completely insane. Here’s hoping that group expands further...

[lee martell]

The other Assemblymen are more interested in virtue signalling vs developing policies they can actually enforce.
I see a lot of that in California. Functioning more as some kind of Glee Club than a branch of their local government.

[lee martell]

I was all set to make fun of her because of that name;
‘Dawn Fantasia’. which sounds somewhat cartoony, but she turns out to be the most clear headed, grounded in reality person in the Assembly Hall. I’ve not heard of her until now.

[George from New England]

Trump likely to take note. He knows good and evvvil

[Sequoyah101]

I did not think any such people as this existed in politics anywhere. A person with common sense.

[DugwayDuke]

Sequoyah101 wrote: “I did not think any such people as this existed in politics anywhere. A person with common sense.”

You’ll notice that unlike most legislators, she isn’t a lawyer.

[Kid Shelleen]

I believe she is a Republican ...

[mass55th]

"So another Democrat joins Fetterman as very liberal but not completely insane."

She's a Republican.

[mass55th]

I watched this on another site last night. She was awesome, and right on the money.

[Sequoyah101]

That seems to be a big plus in many cases.

[TexasGator]

“So another Democrat joins Fetterman as very liberal but not completely insane. Here’s hoping that group expands further...”

Obviously you didn’t read or listen to her speech.

[paulcissa]

I’ve not heard of her until now.

She's a solid conservative R from NJ 24th legislative district in my part of the state. I think this may have been F. Scott Garretts old seat from many years ago. Unfortunately, there's few left like her in NJ. TDS and woke ideology run the state.

[Islander7]

The room full of lawyers understands that their buddies will make bank on the legal challenges. It’s about the money.