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May 6, 2025
Washington, D.C. (May 6, 2025) Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Oversight and the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, on oversight of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

May 1, 2025
Washington, D.C. (May 1, 2025)- Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, led Committee Democrats in opposing Republicans' bill to enact Donald Trump's massive tax cuts for billionaires and corporations and bankroll his mass deportation agenda while defunding healthcare, food assistance, veterans' services, domestic violence programs, and other programs that serve the American people.

April 30, 2025
Washington, D.C. - This week, House Democrats' Litigation and Rapid Response Task Force elevated their fight against the Trump Administration's illegal attacks on the constitutional principle of birthright citizenship to the highest court in the land-filing an amicus brief for the  three birthright citizenship cases currently before the United States Supreme Court (Trump v. State of Washington, Trump v. CASA, Inc., and Trump v. State of New Jersey).

April 30, 2025
Washington, D.C. (April 30, 2025)-Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Full Committee markup of Republicans' funding bill, a blank check for President Donald Trump's authoritarian crusade that cuts funding for Americans' healthcare, food assistance, and public safety-all to bankroll Trump's tax cuts for billionaires and his cruel mass deportation agenda.

April 29, 2025

Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2025)-Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep.


April 29, 2025

Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2025)-Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement on President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office:

"It's 100 days into his second term, and Donald Trump has brought numerous sectors of society in the United States to the precipice of authoritarian rule. But people are fighting back everywhere every day and the courts are hanging tough for the Constitution.


April 25, 2025

Washington, D.C. (April 25, 2025)-Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel said agents arrested a county judge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on charges of obstructing an immigration arrest: 


April 24, 2025

Washington, D.C. - The Litigation and Rapid Response Task Force led 192 House Democrats in filing an amicus brief challenging the Trump Administration's efforts to close the Department of Education in the matter of the State of New York v. Linda McMahon. A case in which 20 states moved to sue the administration for its plans to place fifty percent of the Department's workforce on administrative leave, effectively shuttering a congressionally authorized agency by way of executive fiat. 


April 24, 2025

Washington, D.C. (April 24, 2025)-Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement on President Donald Trump's presidential memorandum to the Department of Justice (DOJ) targeting ActBlue, an online platform utilized by Americans to support Democratic campaigns at all levels of government:


April 23, 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Jamie Raskin of the House Judiciary Committee,  and U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) demanded the Department of Justice (DOJ) provide details on the threatened use of armed Special Deputy U.S.