Press Releases
August 21, 2025
Washington, D.C. (August 21, 2025)—Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) demanded answers from Paramount Skydance Corporation CEO David Ellison after the company
August 15, 2025
Washington, D.C. (August 15, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced a joint resolution terminating
August 13, 2025
Washington, D.C. (August 13, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, led Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director William K. Marshall III pressing for answers regarding the unusual and abrupt transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell from a more restrictive BOP facility to a minimum security facility in Texas, amid concerns that the Trump Administration may be attempting to coax favorable testimony or strategic silence from Maxwell
August 11, 2025
Washington, D.C. (August 11, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced he would federalize the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C.:
August 8, 2025
Washington, D.C. (August 8, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Greg Casar, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Vice Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, demanded answers from U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Director Kash Patel regarding the reported use of federal law enforcement resources for purely political purposes.
August 8, 2025
Washington, D.C. (August 8, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the Trump Administration Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) firing of former Acting Director Brian Driscoll:
August 1, 2025
Washington, D.C. (August 1, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust, sent a letter demanding Attorney General Pam Bondi provide information regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)’s acquisition of Juniper Networks, Inc. (Juniper) after reporting suggests that
July 31, 2025
Washington, D.C. (July 31, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer urging them to reject President Trump’s alarming nomination of Jeanine Pirro to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
July 30, 2025
Washington, D.C. (July 30, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, joined a dozen individual members of the U.S. House of Representatives in suing the Trump-Vance Administration, challenging its unlawful obstruction of congressional oversight that the members have sought to conduct at federal immigration detention facilities, in which both citizens and noncitizens have been detained without due process. |
Subcommittees
July 28, 2025
Washington, D.C. — The Litigation Task Force led 157 House Democrats in filing an amicus brief challenging the Office of Management and Budget’s unlawful freezing of congressional appropriated funds in order to further President Trump’s reckless agenda. Their argument makes clear that the President cannot unilaterally bypass the Congress—and thereby the will of the American people