Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and House Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to raise concerns and request a briefing on the Religious Liberty Task Force established by the Department of Justice on July 30, 2018. In their letter, the Members affirm their belief in the basic constitut... Read more »
Expanding Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence Rep. Nadler speaking in support of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization to protect victims of domestic violence and assault. Last month, I led over 100 of my Democratic colleagues in introducing the reauthorization for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which has helped an incalculable number of women, men, and children recover f... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court: "Yesterday, President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Kennedy as an Associate Justice o... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during the Committee markup of Rep. Ted Lieu’s resolution of inquiry, H. Res. 928, which requests information on President Trump’s pardons: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The power of the pardon is vast. Alexander Hamilton told us in Federalist No. 74 that “the benign prer... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii: “I am appalled by the Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii. Today, the Court willfully turned a blind eye to the religious animus motivating the President when he issued the travel ban and would have us pretend that we did n... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during the Committee markup of Rep. Mark Meadows’ resolution of inquiry, H. Res. 938, which requests information about Hillary Clinton and the alleged wrongful surveillance of Carter Page: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Not counting Mr. Lieu’s resolution on the pardon powe... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet hearing on “Examining the Need for New Federal Judges.” “Mr. Chairman, ‘access to justice’ is not just a political slogan, it is a constitutional guarantee. But in some federal judicial districts,... Read more »
Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the release of the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on FBI activities prior to the 2016 election: “The stark conclusion we draw after reviewin... Read more »
Yesterday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement following oral arguments in the case of Blumenthal, Nadler, et al. v. Trump in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia—in which nearly 200 Members of Congress are aski... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) released a letter sent to Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, demanding answers regarding the Department’s involvement in assisting Chinese phone company ZTE after President Donald Trump tweeted, “President Xi of China, and I, are working together t... Read more »
