Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) of the House Committee on the Judiciary, delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 5682, the “FIRST STEP Act.” “I rise in opposition to H.R. 5682, the “FIRST STEP Act.” On principle, I cannot support legislation which fails to address the larger issue of sentencing reform, and, though this bill makes moderate improvements i... Read more »
Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) of the House Judiciary Committee released the following statement in response to the effort by President Trump and Congressional Republicans to undercut the Special Counsel investigation by pressuring the Department of Justice to expose the role of a top-secret FBI source: “A deliberate decision to expose the identity of a confidential source for some p... Read more »
Today, in a 5-4 decision written by Judge Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held in Epic Systems v. Lewis that employers may use forced arbitration to circumvent workers’ rights to band together to hold employers accountable for wage theft and other misconduct. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to the decision: “I agree with Justi... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) released a letter they sent to Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, demanding answers regarding the Department’s involvement in assisting Chinese phone company, ZTE, after President Donald Trump tweeted, “President Xi of China, and I, are working toge... Read more »
Watch Here Today, on the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) joined his colleagues in Democratic leadership to unveil a resolution to affirm support for disparate impact analysis as an enforcement tool of Title VI under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The resolution also calls on the Trump administration to fully enforce federal ... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during the Committee markup of H.R. 2561, the “POLICE Act.”STATEMENT OF RANKING MEMBER NADLER FOR THE MARKUP OF H.R. 2561, THE "POLICE ACT" Raking Member Nadler: Mr. Chairman, certainly we must assist our law enforcement officers, who work long hours under stressful an... Read more »
On Thursday, May 17, the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Democratic leadership will hold a forum to examine current enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in U.S. schools and to announce the introduction of a new resolution to affirm support for disparate impact analysis as an enforcement tool of Title VI under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This comes on the heels of a recent Government ... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after the Senate Judiciary Committee released more than 2,500 pages of documents related to its investigation into the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between top Trump aides and a delegation of Russians who promised to help the Trump presidential campaign: “These preliminary findin... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following remarks on the House floor during the consideration of H.R. 5682, the “Protect and Serve Act.” “The “Protect and Serve Act,” while rooted in laudable goals, will not strengthen protections for law enforcement officers and it fails to make meaningful reforms that would improve police -... Read more »
