Trump’s acceptance of foreign government payments violates the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause Members also blast Trump’s limited & inadequate promise to donate “all profits from foreign governments’ patronage,” which allows him to continue collecting large sums of revenue with no transparency or accountability [] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Judiciary ... Read more »
Today, Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Adam Smith (D-WA), and Robert A. Brady (D-PA), the Ranking Members of the House Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security, Oversight & Government Reform, Armed Services, and House Administration, issued a statement after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided Committee staff with an unclassi... Read more »
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today released the following statement after the Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (H.R. 1551), bipartisan legislation to update key provisions of U.S. copyright law regarding music licensing, was signed into law. “The Music Modernization Act provides a critical update to current copyright law to modernize the music ... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and House Natural Resources Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), along with Representatives Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI), Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands, Steve Cohen (D-TN), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and Donald McEachin (D-VA), Rankin... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, issued the following joint statement in response to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (IG) report, which determined the Administration misled Congress and the ... Read more »
Ruling allows Members to argue President should be accountable for full range of foreign government benefits he accepts without consent of Congress [] – In a historic decision today, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in the District of Columbia ruled in favor of U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking M... Read more »
Yesterday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during a Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing on "The State of Intellectual Freedom in America": "The purported subject of today’s hearing is the “State of Intellectual Freedom in America.” Despite this lofty title, however, the hear... Read more »
Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the announcement that a new subpoena has been issued as part of the continuing Republican investigation into the actions of the FBI and Department of Justic... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following remarks demanding immediate floor consideration of H.R. 5476, the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act. The House will vote on the previous question, which would bring the legislation to the House floor. Below is Ranking Member Nadler’s floor statement, as prepared: “Mr. Sp... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during a Judiciary Committee hearing on sports betting in America: “I commend the Subcommittee’s Chairman, Jim Sensenbrenner, and Ranking Member, Sheila Jackson Lee, for holding this hearing today on a topic that is important for Congress to examine because of recent d... Read more »
