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December 18, 2017

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), today led a letter signed by every democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, urging him to hold hearings on Trump's threat to abuse his pardon power.


December 15, 2017

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), sent a letter to the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Public Affairs Director Sarah Flores to demand clarity after she made inconsistent statements regarding the release of text messages between two FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to the press.


December 14, 2017

Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter asking their respective Chairmen, Reps.


December 13, 2017

Today, U.S. Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time at an oversight hearing. Watch the hearing on House Judiciary Democrats' Facebook page here.


Rosenstein Supports Mueller & FBI


December 12, 2017

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee's markup of H.R. 1865, the "Allow States And Victims To Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act Of 2017."

Issues: Crime

December 11, 2017

This evening, the House passed H.R. 1730, the "Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act," by a vote of 402-2. This bill would extend protections under current federal law for "religious real property." Currently, Section 247 of the Federal Criminal Code prohibits both the damaging of religious property because of the property's religious character and the intentional obstruction - by force or threats of force - of anyone's exercise of religious beliefs.


December 8, 2017

Today, CNN reports that candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump, Jr., and others inside the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked documents - weeks before WikiLeaks began publishing the contents of those documents online.