Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Jamie Raskin of the House Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) demanded the Department of Justice (DOJ) provide details on the threatened use of armed Special Deputy U.S. Marshals to intimidate a fired Trump administration official ahead of her scheduled appearance before Raskin and Schiff's bicameral spotli... Read more »
Washington, D.C. (April 23, 2025)— Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel demanding he open an investigation into Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin’s failure to disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee more than 150 appearances on Russian state-controlled television,... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, are pressing five top law firms for answers regarding their capitulation to President Donald Trump through deals made with him in order to avoid executive orders targeting firm... Read more »
Washington, D.C. (April 21, 2025)— Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Hank Johnson, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, sent a letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., expressing grave concern over the escalating volume and severity of threats against federal judges, th... Read more »
Washington, D.C. (April 18, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement addressing concerns that President Donald Trump may invoke the Insurrection Act as part of his administration’s escalating campaign against immigrants and U.S. citizens alike: “I am being flooded with messages asking me to address rumors that Donald Tru... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Reps. Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Joe Morelle (NY-25), and Gerry Connolly (VA-11), the top Democrats on the Committees on House Administration, Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform, respectively, sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting confirmation that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will zealously represent the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—a Legis... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House and Senate Democrats filed an amicus brief opposing President Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). FTC Commissioners Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya are duly appointed, Senate-confirmed Commissioners at an independent federal agency created by Congress. Trump’s illegal attempts to terminate them threaten the inte... Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Democrats continued their efforts to push back against President Donald Trump’s unlawful executive directives by filing an amicus brief in defense of the essential constitutional principle of birthright citizenship in the matter of State of Washington, et al. v. Trump, et al. The brief was signed by 208 members of the Democratic Caucus, including leads and Litigatio... Read more »
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee, Bennie Thompson (MS-02), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Veronica Escobar (TX-16) sent a letter to President Donald Trump calling on him to end his administrat... Read more »
Washington, D.C. (April 10, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, led Committee Democrats in rebuking the Trump Administration’s chaotic and lawless immigration enforcement, including their reckless diversion of state and local law enforcement resou... Read more »
