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Today, House Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), held a press conference to address President Trump's outrageous "demands" on the Department of Justice as part of his continued attacks against the DOJ and the FBI, and to release a new letter to the President regarding his reluctance to sit with Special Counsel Mueller for an interview. "Thank you all for coming. And thank you to the Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee for joining me here today. |
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Ranking Member Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to protect American victims of international terrorism and ensure access to compensation for those impacted by acts of terror. The Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act of 2018 (H.R. 5954) makes needed improvements to the Antiterrorism Act of 1992 to better ensure that American victims of international terrorism can obtain justice in U.S.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), today led a letter signed by Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee to President Donald Trump, urging him to comply with Robert Mueller's request to sit for an interview as part of the Special Counsel investigation.
Witnesses
The Honorable Andrei Iancu
Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, on behalf of U.S. Department of Commerce
Today, in a 5-4 decision written by Judge Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held in Epic Systems v. Lewis that employers may use forced arbitration to circumvent workers' rights to band together to hold employers accountable for wage theft and other misconduct.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to the decision:
"I agree with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that the Supreme Court's decision to eviscerate the fundamental rights of working people is 'egregiously wrong.'
Witnesses
Seth Bloom
President and Founder, Bloom Strategic Counsel, PLLC
Philip Brown
Specialist in Energy Policy, Congressional Research Service
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) released a letter they sent to Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, demanding answers regarding the Department's involvement in assisting Chinese phone company, ZTE, after President Donald Trump tweeted, "President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast.
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after the Senate Judiciary Committee released more than 2,500 pages of documents related to its investigation into the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between top Trump aides and a delegation of Russians who promised to help the Trump presidential campaign:
On Thursday, May 17, the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Democratic leadership will hold a forum to examine current enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in U.S. schools and to announce the introduction of a new resolution to affirm support for disparate impact analysis as an enforcement tool of Title VI under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Witnesses
Kristen Holman
Lynchburg, Virginia
J. Spencer Morgan III
Commonwealth's Attorney, Accomack County, Virginia
Washington, D.C. (May 8, 2018)-Today, Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Judiciary, and Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), and Donald S. Beyer Jr.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement for a hearing on the opioid crisis:
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I welcome today's hearing as an opportunity to explore ways we can best address the crisis of opioid abuse in our country. I believe it is critical that we do so, in order to identify what works and what does not, so that we do not repeat mistakes we have made in the past.
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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) issued one letter calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate allegations that the Justice Department pressured the FBI to shut down its probe of the Clinton Foundation during the 2016 presidential election, and a second letter demanding information from the Department about Daniel Richman, an associate of former FBI Director James Comey: |
Today, the Republican Majority of the House Judiciary Committee held an official hearing with pro-Trump social media personalities "Diamond and Silk," who gave testimony to the Committee on their belief that social media companies are engaged in a plot to silence conservative voices on the Internet.
Ranking Member Nadler addressed these claims in his opening statement:
NADLER'S STATEMENT FOR THE MARKUP OF H.R. 1689, THE "PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT OF 2017"
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening statement for the markup of H.R. 1689, the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2017:
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Democratic Members of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released the following key takeaways from yesterday's interview with Christopher Wylie, a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower who revealed that the firm-which the Trump Campaign used to target voters in the 2016 Presidential election-acquired and misused the personal information of millions of U.S. Facebook users. |
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Today, Democratic Members of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducted an interview with Christopher Wylie, a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower who revealed that the firm-which the Trump Campaign used to target voters in the 2016 Presidential election-acquired and misused the personal information of millions of U.S. Facebook users. Following the interview, Democratic Members issued the following statement: |
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement on memos written by former FBI Director James Comey, that the Judiciary Committee received from the Justice Department yesterday:
"The release of these memos-under threat of subpoena by the Majority-has accomplished little other than corroborating Mr. Comey's previous testimony. President Trump asked Comey to see his way to 'letting this Flynn [investigation] go,' 'needed loyalty and expected loyalty,' and wanted to 'lift the cloud' of the Russian investigation.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement on memos written by former FBI Director James Comey, that the Judiciary Committee received from the Justice Department yesterday:
"The release of these memos-under threat of subpoena by the Majority-has accomplished little other than corroborating Mr. Comey's previous testimony. President Trump asked Comey to see his way to 'letting this Flynn [investigation] go,' 'needed loyalty and expected loyalty,' and wanted to 'lift the cloud' of the Russian investigation.