Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee’s markup of “H.R. 506, the “Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2017.” "Thank you, Mr. Chairman.  I am pleased to support H.R. 506, the “Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act.”   H.R. 506… Read more »

On Thursday, the House of Representatives will consider S. 139, a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.  This bill fails to accomplish any meaningful reform or provide any significant measure of privacy protections. S. 139 is a deeply flawed bill that ultimately jeopardizes the reauthorization of Section 702 altogether. It is… Read more »

Twelve members of the United States Senate and 33 members of the United States House filed a Congressional amicus brief in the appeal of the case City of Chicago v. Sessions, which is the lawsuit that the City of Chicago brought in August seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from blocking critical violence… Read more »

Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he is rescinding the memorandum issued in 2013 by former Deputy Attorney General James Cole that guided the efforts of federal prosecutors in marijuana cases.  With the purpose of focusing federal marijuana prosecutions on “the most significant threats, in the most effective, consistent, and rational way,” the… Read more »

Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released statements after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.)… Read more »

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 threat to abuse his pardon power. In their letter to Chairman Goodlatte, the Members wrote, “As you know, Special… Read more »

Today, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), to inform them that DOJ did not consult the Inspector General before releasing text messages between two FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to the press. Ranking… Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), along with Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), sent a letter to the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Public Affairs Director Sarah Flores to demand clarity after she made inconsistent statements regarding the release of text messages between two FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page… Read more »

Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter asking their respective Chairmen, Reps. Trey Gowdy and Bob Goodlatte, to issue subpoenas for documents from two Trump Campaign data consultants—Cambridge… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, questioned Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during the Committee’s oversight hearing.    Click on the photo for a video of the exchange. The full text of Rep. Nadler's Q&A with DAG Rosenstein follows… Read more »