Constitution

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 »

On the Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Top Democrats to Hold Forum & Introduce a Resolution to Affirm Support for Meaningful Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act

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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 »

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 »

NADLER STATEMENT ON GOODLATTE’S PROPOSED INVESTIGATIONS OF CLINTON FOUNDATION PROBE AND COMEY MEMOS

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) issued one letter calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate allegations that the Justice Department pressured the FBI to shut down its probe of the Clinton Foundation during the 2016 presidential election, and a second letter demanding informat... Read more »

NADLER'S STATEMENT FOR THE MARKUP OF H.R. 1689, THE “PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT OF 2017”

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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening statement for the markup of H.R. 1689, the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2017: “Mr. Chairman, I question whether marking up H.R. 1689, the “Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2017”, is the wisest use of the Committee’s time. To begin with, the bill is a resp... Read more »

Judiciary and Oversight Committee Democrats Issue Joint Statement after Interview with Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower

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Today, Democratic Members of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducted an interview with Christopher Wylie, a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower who revealed that the firm—which the Trump Campaign used to target voters in the 2016 Presidential election—acquired and misused the personal information of millions of U.S. Facebook users. F... Read more »

Floor Statement of House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler in Opposition to H.J. Res. 2, Proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment

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I rise in strong opposition to H.J. Res. 2, which proposes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Specifically, the bill prohibits total outlays from exceeding total receipts for each fiscal year unless a three-fifths supermajority of the total membership of each House of Congress votes to override the prohibition. The bill also requires a three-fifths supermajority of each Chamber in o... Read more »