Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led House Judiciary Committee Democrats in sending letters to Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) regarding the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions by President Donald Trump in what appears to be a clear effort to change the supervisory structure for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s o... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement in response to President Trump's firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions: "The firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions fits a clear pattern of interference from President Donald Trump in the work of the Department of Justice and the ongoing criminal investigation being con... Read more »
Yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), House Armed Services Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA), House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), and 104 other House Democrats sent a letter calling on Secretary Mattis to provide answers about his depl... Read more »
Legislation Gives Workers the Power to Take Legal Action against Employers in Court Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and House Committee on Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), introduced H.R. 7109, the Restoring Justice for Workers Act, legislation to overrule the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis by ending forced a... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement ahead of President Trump's expected Executive Order removing birthright citizenship for individuals born on U.S. soil: "Donald Trump's divisive and xenophobic comments are not new or surprising - they are the desperate act of a desperate man who is constantly seeking to divide... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN) sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) calling for emergency hearings on hate crimes and domestic terrorism in the wake of rec... Read more »
Top Judiciary Dems: “Heritage Foundation’s ‘Federal Clerkship Training Academy’ is the latest effort by conservatives to undermine the impartiality of the federal judiciary.” Today, Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, is... Read more »
Trump’s acceptance of foreign government payments violates the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause Members also blast Trump’s limited & inadequate promise to donate “all profits from foreign governments’ patronage,” which allows him to continue collecting large sums of revenue with no transparency or accountability [] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Judiciary ... Read more »
