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April 29, 2026
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) sent a letter to TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné announcing a formal investigation by Committee Democrats into the secret billion-dollar deal the company struck with the Trump administration. The Department of the Interior (DOI) killed two American offshore wind projects, then handed over almost a billion dollars in taxpayer money to a French oil company and tried to make the whole arrangement off-limits to any judge who might want to take a look.

April 29, 2026
Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance hearing examining the federal government’s vital duty to enact survivor-centered protections that support all victims of sexual violence and abuse.
Issues: Crime

April 29, 2026
Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2026)—Today, Rep. Lucy McBath, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, delivered opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing examining the federal government’s vital duty to enact survivor-centered protections that support all victims of sexual violence and abuse.
Issues: Crime

April 28, 2026
Washington, D.C. (April 28, 2026)—Today, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, delivered opening remarks at a hearing examining the public safety implications associated with failure to enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Issues: Constitution

April 28, 2026
Washington, D.C. (April 28, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at a Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government hearing examining the public safety implications associated with failure to enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Issues: Constitution

April 22, 2026

Washington, D.C. (April 22, 2026)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, led Judiciary Democrats in launching an investigation into allegations that Kash Patel has engaged in a pattern of alcohol abuse that raises serious national security concerns.


April 17, 2026

Washington, D.C. (April 17, 2026)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.


April 16, 2026

Washington, D.C. (April 16, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, led Democrats in filing two Resolutions calling on President Donald Trump, who has made at least $1.5 billion since returning to the White House, to end his “rampage of presidential profiteering and plunder” by complying with the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.


April 15, 2026

Washington, D.C. (April 15, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with Rep. Dave Min (D-Calif.), introduced the Ban Presidential Plunder of Taxpayer Funds Act, a new bill to ban the Presidents and Vice Presidents from abusing their power to steal taxpayer funds.