I would like to make a few points at the outset.
First, oversight of the Department of Justice and the FBI is incredibly important, especially under President Trump. There are few tasks in our government more critical than ensuring the fair and impartial administration of justice.
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Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) noticed his intent to issue a unilateral subpoena to the Department of Justice to obtain memos written by former FBI Director James Comey: |
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), today led a letter signed by every Democratic Member of the House Judiciary Committee to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, urging him to hold hearings on Trump's pardon of Scooter Libby.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement for the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations oversight hearing on the Bureau of Prisons:
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Mark S. Inch
Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) of the House Judiciary Committee released the following statement after Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz from the Justice Department (DOJ) released his report on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe:
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E. Donald Elliot
Yale Law School, Covington & Burling, LLP, Senior of Counsel
Emily Hammond
Associate Dean for Public Engagement, George Washington University Law School
Today, House Judiciary Democrats, led by Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), held a joint press conference to introduce the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, a companion bill to the bipartisan Senate legislation which would limit President Trump's ability to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller and interfere in the Russian election meddling investigation. Below are Ranking Member Nadler's remarks, as prepared for delivery:
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Today we are considering four classification bills. These are noncontroversial and bipartisan bills and I hope that we can move through them quickly. To that end, I am incorporating my comments on all four bills into this single statement.
H.R. 5283, H.R. 5293, H.R. 5335, and H.R. 5344 -- make a series of long-overdue technical amendments to the United States Code. They are the product of a meticulous review conducted by the Office of Law Revision Counsel, which is responsible for maintaining and publishing the Code.
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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding the FBI's executed search warrant on the offices of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and warned against any potential interference with Special Counsel Mueller's ongoing investigation, including actions against Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and Attorney General Sessions: |
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 after Judge Peter J. Messitte's ruling on D.C. and Maryland v. Trump in the District of Maryland. Judge Messitte's ruling today allows the case to proceed, but narrows the scope to violations of the Constitution's Emoluments Clauses related to Trump International Hotel.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after the Department of Justice Inspector General announced he is opening an investigation into potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI):
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) issued a unilateral subpoena:
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following remarks during the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations hearing entitled, "Preventable Violence in America: An Examination of Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Misguided Public Policy"
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During today's House Judiciary Committee hearing, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) renewed his call for the House Judiciary Committee to conduct oversight. Nadler and Committee Democrats have long called on the Judiciary Committee majority to hold hearings on the Trump Administration, attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators, foreign threats to the integrity of U.S. elections, Russian interference in the 2016 election and more.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), urging him to investigate attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators, and to call in Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower who helped found Cambridge Analytica, the Trump Campaign data firm that acquired the personal information of millions of U.S. Facebook users.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement on President Trump's nomination of Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Mike Pompeo as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency:
"The Senate owes it to the American people to take a hard look at Deputy Director Haspel, whose career at the CIA coincides with some of the darkest moments in recent American history. She oversaw a 'black site' prison in Thailand. She approved interrogation techniques that were clearly unlawful at the time, and ordered the destruction of evidence of those practices.
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