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Ranking Member Raskin’s Statement on Corrupt ‘Million-Dollar Jackpot Provision’ Tucked Into Massive GOP Spending Bill for A Select Group of Republican Senators

November 11, 2025

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Washington, D.C. (November 11, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement after Senate Republicans snuck into their spending bill a corrupt provision to allow for $500,000 paydays for eight Senators who were investigated for their role in Trump’s effort to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election:

HOUSE, SENATE DEMOCRATS FILE AMICUS BRIEF TO SUPREME COURT SUPPORTING ILLINOIS’S LEGAL CHALLENGE TO TRUMP’S USE OF NATIONAL GUARD

November 10, 2025

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WASHINGTON – The House Democrats’ Litigation Task Force, led by House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, Task Force Chair Joe Neguse, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and House Armed Services Ranking Member Adam Smith, along with U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spearheaded a group of 155 House and Senate Democrats in support of Illinois’s legal challenge to President Trump’s unwarranted National Guard deployment in Illinois.

Whistleblower Shares Evidence That Federal Prison Camp Warden is Pampering Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell Also Filing a “Commutation Application” With Trump Administration

November 10, 2025

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Washington, D.C. (November 10, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to President Donald Trump demanding that he answer inquiries from the Committee and make Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche available for a public hearing in light of documents and information received by the Committee showing that under Dr. Tanisha Hall, the warden of Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan, the federal law enforcement staff working at the camp have been waiting on

Ranking Member Raskin Releases New Information on Trump DOJ’s Decision to Kill Investigation Into Epstein’s Co-Conspirators and Demands Answers from AG Bondi

November 4, 2025

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Washington, D.C. (November 4, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding to know why the Trump Administration abruptly terminated a criminal investigation into the co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The DOJ decision to end the investigation shielded a network of

Ranking Member Raskin Demands Answers on Role of MAGA Hedge Fund Manager in Trump’s $40 Billion Argentina Bailout

October 31, 2025

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Washington, D.C. (October 31, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, is investigating the Trump Administration’s $40 billion bailout to Argentina—half funded by American taxpayers—that appears designed to juice a billionaire hedge fund manager’s Argentinian investors and prop up Argentina’s MAGA-aligned President. This bailout is happening while federal workers, including law enforcement and air traffic controllers, are forced to work without pay, and the

Ranking Member Raskin Probes Alphabet’s “Coerced Confession” That Directly Contradicts Employees’ Testimony to Congress

October 31, 2025

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Washington, D.C. (October 31, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, demanding answers about the company’s sudden reversal of testimony regarding its COVID-19 content moderation policies and its recent $24.5 million settlement with Donald Trump. Alphabet Inc. is the parent company of Google, and the ultimate owner of YouTube.

Ranking Member Raskin Probes Special Treatment of Epstein Co-Conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell in Minimum-Security Prison Camp, Retaliation Against Inmates Who Speak Out

October 31, 2025

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Washington, D.C. (October 31, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Warden Dr. Tanisha Hall of Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan demanding answers about the outrageous preferential treatment being afforded to convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and the retaliatory punishment of inmates who have spoken out about it.

Ranking Members Raskin, Jayapal, Durbin, and Padilla Condemn Trump Administration’s Unlawful Refugee Cap

October 30, 2025

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Washington, D.C. (October 30, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, Sen. Dick Durbin, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen.

Judiciary Democrats Expand Probe, Demand DOJ Officials Reject President’s Corrupt Demand for $230 Million Payout

October 28, 2025

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Washington, D.C. (October 28, 2025)— Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, led Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward demanding that they immediately reject President Donald Trump’s flagrantly unconstitutional demand

House Democrats’ Litigation Task Force Submits Bicameral Amicus Brief to Supreme Court, Challenging Trump’s Unlawful IEEPA Tariffs

October 27, 2025

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Washington, D.C. — 171 House Democrats and 36 Senators took their fight against President Donald Trump’s sweeping and chaotic on-again-off-again tariffs to the highest court in the land, filing an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court. The lawmakers’ filing stands up for Congress’s Article I legislative powers and argues that the IEEPA is not a tariff statute and that Congress did not intend or provide for the IEEPA to be used as a tariff statute.