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Bipartisan Bill Improves Protections for American Victims of International Terrorism

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Ranking Member Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to protect American victims of international terrorism and ensure access to compens... Read more »

HOUSE JUDICIARY DEMS HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S OUTRAGEOUS “DEMANDS” OF DOJ AND ISSUE LETTER URGING INTERVIEW WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL MUELLER

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), held a press conference to address President Trump’s outrageous “demands” on the Department of Justice as part of his continued attacks against the DOJ and the FBI, and to release a new letter to the President regarding his reluctance to sit with Special Counsel Mueller for an interview. Below are Ranking Mem... Read more »

RANKING MEMBER NADLER’S STATEMENT ON THE U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE OVERSIGHT HEARING

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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office oversight hearing: “The patent landscape has changed considerably in less than a decade. Starting with passage in 2011 of the America Invents Act, known as the AIA, and followed by a number of significant Supreme Court decisions,... Read more »

RANKING MEMBER NADLER FLOOR STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION TO H.R. 5682, THE “FIRST STEP ACT”

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Tags: Crime

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 »

Ranking Member Nadler Statement on Effort by President Trump and House Republicans to Expose Identity of FBI Confidential Source

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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 »

Nadler Condemns Scotus Decision to Prevent Workers from Banding Together to Resolve Workplace Disputes, Calls for End to Forced Arbitration

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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 »

TOP JUDICIARY & FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEMS RAISE CONCERNS OVER TRUMP’S CHINA POLICY REVERSAL FOLLOWING CHINESE INVESTMENT IN TRUMP ORGANIZATION PROJECT, DEMS DEMAND ANSWERS FROM COMMERCE

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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 »

Opening Statement of Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler for the Forum on Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in U.S. Schools

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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 »

Statement of Ranking Member Nadler for the Markup of H.r. 2561, the "Police Act"

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Tags: Crime

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 »

Ranking Member Nadler Statement on Senate Judiciary Committee Report on Trump Tower Meeting

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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 »