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The first major act of President Donald Trump’s second term was granting an Inauguration Day pardon to all the rioters and insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. As dreadful as it was a year ago that Trump excused and blessed mass street violence against the constitutional order, the decision looks even worse today, as unleashing authoritarian government violence against the people becomes the defining agenda of the Trump administration.

Washington, D.C. (January 15, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Jared Moskowitz led Judiciary Democrats in sending a letter to Chairman Jim Jordan demanding he launch an investigation into the Department of Justice (DOJ) over its blatant abuse of prosecutorial power in conducting a sham investigation into the Chair of the Federal Reserve Board, Jerome Powell. 

Washington, D.C. (January 14, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at the first hearing of Republicans’ Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021, highlighting the consequences of fictitious conspiracies

Washington, D.C. (January 14, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a pair of letters to the presidents of New York University (NYU) and Columbia University in light of new evidence provided to Committee Democrats by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring that Epstein

Washington, D.C. (January 14, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet hearing examining Republicans’ shameful effort to shield stone slab manufacturers—including a

Washington, D.C. (January 14, 2026)—Today, Rep. Hank Johnson, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, delivered opening remarks at a hearing examining Republicans’ shameful effort to shield stone slab manufacturers—including a top Trump mega-donor—from liability as workers get sick and die from silicosis.

Washington, D.C. (January 13, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem demanding records and information about the hiring of individuals connected to the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and the use of face coverings by federal law enforcement officers to hide their identities.