“Never before have we seen such a brazen attempt by a president to erode public confidence in the courts as a fair and neutral arbiter of the law.” Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced a Resolution of Inquiry directing the Department of Justice to provide the House of Representatives with any and all information relevant to an inquiry into President Trump and his associates’ conflicts of interest, ethical violations—including the Emoluments Clause—and Russia ties. If the House J... Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee, along with Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN), each of the other Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee, and more than 20 additional cosponsors introduced a reso... Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee and former Chair of the Constitution Subcommittee, released the following statement in response to reports that the President will sign an executive order designed to encourage discrimination against the LGBT community under the guise of religious liberty. For the past twenty-five years, Congressman Nadler has been at th... Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to the President's selection of Judge Neil Gorsuch to be his nominee to be the next Supreme Court Justice: "After more than a year of GOP obstruction of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee – simply because he was nominated by President Obama – the Senate should be in no rush to approve Trump’s nominee without stren... Read more »

Today, following Donald Trump’s Executive Order banning entry from 7 Muslim-majority countries, Democratic Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Joe Crowley (D-NY), Jackie Speier (D-CA), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Don Beyer (D-VA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Bobby Scott (D-VA), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), John Yarmuth (D-KY), Suzan DelBen... Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who along with Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez went to JFK airport Saturday morning to help secure the release of Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Alshawi, delivered the following remarks outside the U.S. Supreme Court condemning Donald Trump’s Executive Order banning Muslim entry into the United States: "Thank you, Leader Pelosi and Senator Schumer. My na... Read more »

Today, U.S. Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velazquez traveled to JFK airport to demand the release of refugees being held under the president’s executive order. After meeting with officials from the Custom and Border Patrol agency, one of the refugees, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, an Iraqi translator who helped the United States government, was released. Reps. Nadler and Velazquez are still w... Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) joined Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN), and Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), all members of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, in a statement following the New York Times report on a forthcoming Executive Order on “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants.” The order would permit the CIA “to reopen ‘black s... Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement on his refusal to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States: “The rhetoric and actions of Donald Trump have been so far beyond the pale – so disturbing and disheartening – and his continued failure to address his conflicts of interest, to adequately divest or even to fully disclose h... Read more »