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On January 31, 2025, Ranking Member Jamie Raskin led Committee Democrats in a virtual Member briefing discussion examining the Trump Administration's alarming assault on the career federal prosecutors, special agents, and law enforcement professionals of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
WASHINGTON, D.C.-House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler today delivered the following remarks, as prepared, on the House floor in support of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (S. 2938):
"I would be remiss, Madam Speaker, if I did not comment on the decision of the Supreme Court, just minutes ago, to revoke the constitutional right to abortion-a right that millions of Americans have relied upon for half a century. And, worse, Justice Thomas has indicated that this is merely the beginning of a radical, right-wing effort to roll back other rights-including the right to contraception, the right to marry whomever we choose, and the fundamental right to privacy.
"I would be remiss, Madam Speaker, if I did not comment on the decision of the Supreme Court, just minutes ago, to revoke the constitutional right to abortion-a right that millions of Americans have relied upon for half a century. And, worse, Justice Thomas has indicated that this is merely the beginning of a radical, right-wing effort to roll back other rights-including the right to contraception, the right to marry whomever we choose, and the fundamental right to privacy.
"The Amash/Conyers amendment would ensure that Section 215 of the Patriot Act is used as Congress originally intended – to protect American citizens from terrorist threats, but not to erode our fundamental freedoms. This Amendment does not repeal Section 215. Rather, it ensures that data the NSA collects under this authority pertains to people actually under investigation, rather than to all Americans."
Rep. Conyers receives the Archibald Cox Uncommon Heroes of Watergate Award at Common Cause's "The Lessons of Watergate" conference at the National Press Club.
2/28/2013 - A Dēmos report offering an overview of the interplay between declining upward mobility and growing political inequality