Government Oversight

RANKING MEMBER NADLER STATEMENT ON FBI EXECUTING SEARCH WARRANT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’S LAWYER, MICHAEL COHEN

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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding the FBI’s executed search warrant on the offices of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and warned against any potential interference with Special Counsel Mueller’s ongoing investigation, including actions against Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein an... Read more »

NADLER STATEMENT ON DOJ IG INVESTIGATION OF “FISA ABUSE”

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after the Department of Justice Inspector General announced he is opening an investigation into potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): “It is a shame that the Inspector General has to devote resourc... Read more »

Blumenthal-Nadler Statement on DC and Maryland v. Trump

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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 after Judge Peter J. Messitte’s ruling on D.C. and Maryland v. Trump in the District of Maryland. Judge Messitte’s ruling today allows the case to proceed, but narrows the scope to violat... Read more »

NADLER STATEMENT ON GOODLATTE’S PARTISAN SUBPOENA

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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 a unilateral subpoena: “Instead of using our time and resources to conduct oversight on pressing matters that actually impact our country today—like the Russian government’s ongoing attack on our elections or President Trump’s crusade to undermine the in... Read more »

RANKING MEMBER NADLER LETTER TO GOODLATTE CONDEMNING “APPLAUSE” OF TRUMP ATTACKS ON DOJ & DEMANDING CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA BE BROUGHT IN FOR IMMEDIATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HEARING

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), urging him to investigate attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators, and to call in Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower who helped found Cambridge Analytica, the Trump Campaign data firm that acquired... Read more »

Judiciary Hearing, Nadler Renews Call for Committee to Hold Trump Accountable

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Watch Here During today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) renewed his call for the House Judiciary Committee to conduct oversight. Nadler and Committee Democrats have long called on the Judiciary Committee majority to hold hearings on the Trump Administration, attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Federal Bureau of Investiga... Read more »

IN WAKE OF PUTIN’S VOW TO “NEVER” EXTRADITE THE 13 RUSSIAN NATIONALS INDICTED BY SPECIAL COUNSEL MUELLER FOR ELECTION TAMPERING, TOP DEMOCRATS URGE PRESIDENT TRUMP TO USE ALL POSSIBLE RESOURCES TO ENSURE THESE RUSSIAN FUGITIVES STAND TRIAL IN U.S.

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The Democrats Argue that the Trump Administration Has Failed To Counter Russia’s Effort in Meddling and Refused to Punish Russia with Unanimously Passed Sanctions Top Dems to President Trump: Use All Your Power to Show You’re Serious About Preventing Election Meddling by Foreign Countries U.S Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator Dianne... Read more »

NADLER’S STATEMENT ON THE “CITIZENS’ RIGHT TO KNOW ACT OF 2017”

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Mr. Chairman, I believe the consideration of the issues underlying this bill is timely, but unfortunately misguided. This Committee should examine pretrial services and bail issues with the goal of reforming our Nation’s bail system, not for the purpose of protecting the use of money bail, which is unfair to the indigent, unproductive, and expensive for American taxpayers. H.R. 2152, the “Citizen... Read more »

Nadler Statement on Partisan Goodlatte & Gowdy Request for a Special Counsel to Investigate FISA Abuse

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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s (R-VA) request for a second special counsel to investigate “decisions made and not made by the Department of Justice and the FBI in 2016 and 2017”: “The Nunes memo has now been thoroughly discredited. Speci... Read more »