Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and author of the Respect for Marriage Act, the bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), cheered today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which clears the path to restoration of marriage equality in… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and author of the Respect for Marriage Act, the bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), cheered today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court striking down Section 3 of DOMA as an unconstitutional deprivation of the equal liberty guarantee… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reintroduced the Respect for Marriage Act, the bill to repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The bill has 161 original… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, along with Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), introduced the Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) Act in order to extend critical federal civil rights protections to individuals, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, marital… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court decision in the Voting Rights Act case: “Today’s decision undermines this nation’s strong commitment to the protection of voting rights for all. The pre-clearance requirement, now… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, defended the victims of rape and the reproductive rights of all women by speaking out against a Republican bill, H.R. 1797, which would ban abortion under certain circumstances.  Newly drafted language contained in the bill would provide some exceptions… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, urged his colleagues to uphold American values by closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. The House was debating an amendment to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act that would have forced the facility to close. The amendment was defeated by a vote… Read more »

Will introduce the Tax Fairness for All Families Act of 2013 to provide an increasingly larger Earned Income Tax Credit to assist families with more than three children Read more »

Following the public revelation concerning the collection of phone records, Ranking Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Robert C. “Bobby” Scott… Read more »

Today, Brooklyn Representatives Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) and Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) announced a major new federal shoreline protection and beach replenishment project on the western edge of Coney Island and Sea Gate, a vulnerable area that is still devastated after Superstorm Sandy.  Jeffries, the current representative of Coney Island, joined Nadler, the senior Northeastern Member of… Read more »