Notable quotables from Chuck Schumer, James Talarico, Gavin Newsom, Lydia Moynihan, Brit Hume, Daniel McCarthy, and more.

You have to be a rom-com expert to match the first line with the right movie!

Trigger warning: The following discusses themes of race, gender, "hate" speech ... Author Heather Mac Donald takes a lot of heat. She writes about race, crime, diversity, gender, merit -- and says things that got her shouted down on college campuses. She points out the absurdity of the left's attack on Western civilization. "For the left to claim that the West is the source of inequity in the world," she says, "oppression, racism, the crushing of minority voices, of indigenous populations, that is so ignorant! It is so blind to the reality of history ..."

One of the sticking points in the standoff between Democrats and Republicans over funding for the Department of Homeland Security has been the Trump administration's expanded use of administrative warrants to forcibly enter people's homes to make immigration arrests. Democrats argue the new DHS policy runs afoul of the Constitution and have demanded immigration officers obtain judicial warrants — a higher legal bar that requires a judge's approval — to forcibly enter a home. The Trump administration contends that immigrants in the country illegally who have received a final order of removal from immigration judges are not entitled to Fourth Amendment protections — a position many immigration law experts dispute. And several lawmakers have argued that the additional requirement for judicial warrants would significantly curtail immigration enforcement efforts.

President Donald Trump is pushing Congress to end mail voting as Americans have come to know it. So far, Republican lawmakers aren't heeding his calls. Trump has long railed against the expansion of vote-by-mail, arguing despite scant evidence that it is rife with fraud and suggesting it was responsible in part for his 2020 election loss. Since retaking office, he has repeatedly called for action — most recently Monday night to reporters on Air Force One. "Why would you want mail-in ballots if you know it's corrupt?" Trump said. "It's a corrupt system."

The Supreme Court announced new rules Tuesday designed to help identify all of the parties involved in a case, allowing the justices to figure out if they have conflicts of interest that demand their recusal. The rules require parties to make sure that some part of a case's briefing mentions all of the parties involved, and in some cases, their corporate parent firms. The update also requires parties to list the stock ticker symbols of any publicly held companies. The court said the update will improve the electronic conflict-checking system to spot cases where the justices need to decide whether they can take part. "Most of the changes are designed to support operation of newly developed software that will assist in identifying potential conflicts for the Justices, and the revisions impose a number of new requirements upon filers to support the software," a statement from the court said.

House Democrats are plotting a range of moves to broadcast their defiance of President Trump during his State of the Union address to Congress next week. Trump's speech marks a significant flashpoint as it comes amid a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, with the White House and Democrats locked in an impasse over reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection after immigration agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens in Minnesota. While some Democrats are making a quieter stand by skipping the high-profile event, others are prepared to walk out mid-speech and bring guests to underscore their arguments about the real-world impact of Trump's policies.

This midterm year's primary elections are upon us, and the battle in Texas, where early voting begins this week for the March 3 primary, has Democrats feeling feisty. Rarely have the stakes been higher, and not only because control of both chambers of Congress is in play. Texas is where President Trump launched his sleazy scheme to redistrict Democratic members of the House out of their seats, an effort that has spread across the country like measles. Voters need to hold accountable the state's Republicans for enabling such antidemocratic meddling. It's possible — but only if Democrats can avoid past mistakes.