Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, participated in a Congressional hearing which examined the issue of Jacob Ostreicher’s illegal detention. Mr. Ostreicher, a constituent of Rep. Nadler’s from Brooklyn, has been detained in Bolivia for nearly two years. Rep. Nadler has previously… Read more »
Today, Senators Robert Casey (D-PA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) in the Senate, and Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jackie Speier (D-CA), Susan Davis (D-CA) and Marcia Fudge (D-OH) in the House, joined by the leaders of women’s advocacy organizations, unions, and business groups from across the nation, introduced critical legislation – the Pregnant… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, opposed the GOP’s ongoing attacks on Tom Perez, the current Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and President Obama’s nominee to be the next Secretary of Labor. At a Joint Hearing of the Committee on… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, spoke in support of Tom Perez and his strong record of reform and leadership at the helm of the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. At a Judiciary hearing entitled, “Mismanagement at the Civil Right Division of the… Read more »
Tomorrow, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, will attend the Supreme Court oral arguments in the case of U.S. v. Windsor, a landmark challenge to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). DOMA defines marriage for purposes of federal law as “only a legal union between one man and one… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the ranking member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, responded to a new report issued by the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice on the Voting Rights Section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division from 2001-2011. The 258-page report covers the activities of… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), one of Congress’s most outspoken defenders of civil rights and civil liberties, was again named the Ranking Democrat on the newly renamed Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice of the House Judiciary Committee. The Constitution subcommittee has jurisdiction over all proposed constitutional amendments, constitutional rights,… Read more »
Today, House LGBT Equality Caucus Members Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), John Conyers (D-MI), Jared Polis (D-CO), David Cicilline (D-RI), and newly sworn-in Members of Congress Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mark Takano (D-CA), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) denounced the House Republican move to include additional funds to defend the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and author of the bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), applauded the decision released today by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals which found that “Section 3 of DOMA violates equal protection and is therefore unconstitutional.”
“Now… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, spoke out against a five year extension of the warrantless wiretapping provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
“While it is appropriate for our government to gather foreign intelligence, and some degree of secrecy is necessary, it is also… Read more »