Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, released the following statement after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) held a last minute, confidential meeting with Members of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees to interview FBI Deputy Direct... Read more »
Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter asking their respective Chairmen, Reps. Trey Gowdy and Bob Goodlatte, to issue subpoenas for documents from two Trump Campaign data consultants—Cambridge Analytica and Giles-Parscale—after th... Read more »
Today, U.S. Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time at an oversight hearing. Watch the hearing on House Judiciary Democrats’ Facebook page here. Rosenstein Supports Mueller & FBI When asked by several Members about his thoughts on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Rosenstein reaffirmed his strong support for Muel... Read more »
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome to the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Rosenstein. For the better part of a year, my colleagues and I have implored this Committee to conduct real oversight of the Department of Justice. On January 24, 2017, we wrote to Chairman Goodlatte insisting that “the Committee hold hearings on President Trump’s conflicts of interest, at home and abroad.” Citing to experts ac... Read more »
Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein expressing concerns about the Department of Justice’s failure to provide documents to Democrats as part of the joi... Read more »
Today, CNN reports that candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump, Jr., and others inside the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked documents — weeks before WikiLeaks began publishing the contents of those documents online. Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) of the House Judiciary Committee issued the following statemen... Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s letter requesting Senate documents relating to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation of Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue research: “While this letter is nothing more than a procedural step, I am appalled by the Departm... Read more »
Congressional Black Caucus Chair, Cedric L. Richmond, Ranking Member, House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers Jr., and CBC Judicial Nominations Working Group Chair, Eleanor Holmes Norton sent a letter to United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman, Chuck Grassley, urging him to uphold the longstanding blue slip policy, which prevents the Committee from considering a judicial nom... Read more »
