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Top House Democrats Demand Answers & Documents from DOJ Following Refusal to Defend Aca

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led a letter signed by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), to Department of Justice (DOJ) At... Read more »

JUDICIARY DEMOCRATS DEMAND HEARINGS ON TRUMP’S ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ IMMIGRATION POLICY AS REPUBLICANS ATTEMPT TO SILENCE THEIR VOICES

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WATCH HERE Today, during a House Judiciary Committee markup, House Judiciary Committee Democrats called for hearings on the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has led to a surge of family separations at the border and recent policy changes to strip asylum protections from domestic violence survivors. Watch here. During the markup, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Me... Read more »

STATEMENT OF RANKING MEMBER NADLER FOR THE MARKUP OF H.R. 4423, THE “NORTH TEXAS WATER SUPPLY SECURITY ACT OF 2017”

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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. 4423, the “North Texas Water Supply Security Act of 2017.” “Mr. Chairman, I strongly oppose H.R. 4423, which takes aim at legal challenges to a single construction project—namely, the Lower Bois d’Arc (“bwah-dark”) Creek Reservoir Pr... Read more »

STATEMENT OF RANKING MEMBER NADLER FOR THE MARKUP OF H.R. 5904, THE “NO OIL PRODUCING AND EXPORTING CARTELS (NOPEC) ACT”

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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. 5904, the “No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels (NOPEC) Act.” “The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, is an international cartel whose members deliberately collude to limit crude oil production as a means of fi... Read more »

Nadler Statement on Approval of At&T-Time Warner Merger

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after a federal judge approved an $85 billion merger between AT&T and Time Warner: “While I was skeptical about President Trump’s seemingly political motivations for opposing the AT&T-Time Warner transaction and remain deeply concerned about potential political interference in antitrust enforceme... Read more »

Top Democrats Respond to Supreme Court Decision in Husted v. a. Philip Randolph Institute

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Washington, D.C. (June 11, 2018)— In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Robert A. Brady (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration, Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and John Sar... Read more »

RANKING MEMBER JERROLD NADLER STATEMENT AT GOP’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING ON THE U.S. CENSUS

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) spoke out against the census citizenship question meant to suppress immigrant participation at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing on the Census. The witnesses include anti-immigrant extremists and the Director of Research at the Conservative Center for Immigration Studies, an organizati... Read more »

Blumenthal-Nadler Statement on Oral Arguments in Congressional Suit to Hold President Trump Accountable to the Constitution

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] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement following oral argument this morning in the case ofBlumenthal, Nadler, et al. v. Trump in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia—in which nearly 200 Members of Congress are ... Read more »

Engel & Nadler Statement on Trump Settlement with Chinese Zte Corporation

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Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Jerrold Nadler, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, today made the following statement: “President Trump’s stunning reversal on ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications conglomerate, is a senseless giveaway to a bad actor and a national security risk. For months, President Tru... Read more »

HOUSE JUDICIARY DEMS SEND LETTER TO WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL MCGAHN ABOUT TRUMP’S EXTRAORDINARY VIEW OF THE PARDON POWER

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House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today led a letter signed by Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee to Donald McGahn, the White House Counsel, asking substantive questions about the recent pardons issued by President Trump, whether or not the formal procedures for processing pardons were followed, and seeking clarification on recent assertions by the Pr... Read more »