Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Nadler: Trump Budget does Not Reflect Our Values

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff released an analysis of President’s Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year 2019 Budget. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement concerning the proposed budget: “President Trump’s budget is weak on crime, is anti-immigrant, and undermines civil rights, legal services and critical regulatory protections. Th... Read more »

House Judiciary Democrats Call for Emergency Hearings after Administration Official Reveals Russia Hacked U.S. Voter Rolls in 2016

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Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee in sending a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) calling for immediate hearings examining the U.S. election infrastructure after a senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official revealed that Russia hacked U.S. voter rolls. The letter asks the Majority for emergency hearings to look... Read more »

Democrats Call for a Hearing on Marijuana Policy Change by A.g. Sessions

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Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and ten of his Democratic colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) requesting a hearing on the recent changes to marijuana enforcement guidance issued by the Justice Department during the Obama Administration. Joining the Ranking Member in signing the letter are Re... Read more »

Judiciary Democrats: Republicans are Complicit in Efforts to Obstruct Justice with Release of Nunes Memo

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a joint statement following the release of the “Nunes memo,” a set of misleading talking points drafted by the Republican staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in an attempt to discredit the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and undermine... Read more »

Nadler Requests Judiciary Committee Immediately Hear from FBI Director Wray on Nunes Memo

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), to request an emergency briefing with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, on his concerns regarding the “Nunes memo,” a set of misleading talking points drafted by the Republican staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that House ... Read more »

BREAKING: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPUBLICANS SHUT DOWN NADLER’S REQUEST FOR SESSION TO DISCUSS “NUNES MEMO” SOURCE MATERIALS

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WATCH HERE After Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted to release the so-called “Nunes memo” yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), today called on Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), to hold an executive session to allow every Member of the House Judiciary Committee to review the original source materials on which that memo is supposedly based in ord... Read more »

Nadler on Report That President Trump Tried to Fire Mueller

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump ordered White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II, to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller in June of 2017: “The New York Times report that President Trump planned to fire Special Counsel Mueller over the summer is deeply disturbing. Wit... Read more »