Government Oversight

House Judiciary Dems Send Letter Urging Trump to Sit for Special Counsel Interview

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Tags: Government Oversight

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), today led a letter signed by Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee to President Donald Trump, urging him to comply with Robert Mueller’s request to sit for an interview as part of the Special Counsel investigation. The letter was signed by Democratic Members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, including: Representati... 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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Tags: Crime, Government Oversight

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 »

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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Tags: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Constitution, Government Oversight

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 »

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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Tags: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Constitution, Government Oversight, Constitution and Civil Justice (115th Congress)

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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Tags: Antitrust, Border Security, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Constitution, Crime, Government Oversight, Immigration, Intellectual Property, National Security, Overcriminalization, Patent and Trademark

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 »