Witnesses
The Honorable Rod J. Rosenstein
Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
Christopher Wray
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to H. Res. 970, a resolution offered by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC):
"This so-called "resolution of insistence" is being rushed to the floor as an emergency measure. There are many emergencies facing the United States at this hour. The subject matter of this resolution is not among them.
"H. Res. 970 is wrong on the facts, wrong on the law, wrong on the rules, and a dangerous precedent to set for the House of Representatives.
"First, the resolution is riddled with inaccuracies.
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during a Judiciary Committee hearing with the Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray on "oversight of FBI and DOJ actions surrounding the 2016 election."
"Mr. Chairman, the events that have led up to this hearing are totally unacceptable.
"On Monday of this week, you notified us of this hearing without the seven-day notice required by the rules.
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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the Supreme Court's decision in Janus v. AFSCME: |
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement on Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's retirement from the United States Supreme Court:
Ahead of a House Rules Committee vote on a resolution sponsored by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) that insists that the Department of Justice (DOJ) comply with the requests, including the subpoenas, issued by the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Judiciary, related to the alleged potential violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by DOJ, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led a letter signed by all House Judiciary Democrats to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to raise concerns about the abuse of power and one sided procedures under which this matter is being considered.
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Mr. Samuel J. Kahn
Chairman and CEO, Kent Holdings and Affiliates
The Honorable Roslynn Mauskopf
Chair, Subcommittee on Judicial Statistics
The Honorable Dana M. Sabraw
United States District Judge, Southern District of California
Witnesses
The Honorable Michael E. Horowitz
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. (June 14, 2018)-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to the release of the Department of Justice Inspector General's report on FBI activities prior to the 2016 election:
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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during the Committee markup of H.R. 4423, the "North Texas Water Supply Security Act of 2017."
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led a letter signed by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr.
Washington, D.C. (June 11, 2018)- In response to the Supreme Court's decision in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Robert A. Brady (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration, Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and John Sarbanes (D-MD), Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, released the following statement:
Witnesses
J. Christian Adams
President and General Counsel, Public Interest Legal Foundation
Steven Camarota
Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) spoke out against the census citizenship question meant to suppress immigrant participation at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing on the Census. The witnesses include anti-immigrant extremists and the Director of Research at the Conservative Center for Immigration Studies, an organization classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Ranking Member Nadler's remarks, as prepared, follow:
Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Jerrold Nadler, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, today made the following statement:
"President Trump's stunning reversal on ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications conglomerate, is a senseless giveaway to a bad actor and a national security risk. For months, President Trump's own Administration has warned Congress about ZTE, saying that the company is associated with Chinese intelligence services. Now the White House is opening the door to this threat.
] – 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 following oral argument this morning in the case ofBlumenthal, Nadler, et al. v. Trump in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia-in which nearly 200 Members of Congress are asking the court to hold President Donald Trump accountable to the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause:
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today led a letter signed by Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee to Donald McGahn, the White House Counsel, asking substantive questions about the recent pardons issued by President Trump, whether or not the formal procedures for processing pardons were followed, and seeking clarification on recent assertions by the President and his associates about his power to pardon himself and terminate ongoing investigations.