Yesterday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, joined House Democratic Caucus Chariman Joe Crowley (D-NY), along with members of New York City’s congressional delegation in sending a letter to President Trump asking him to meet with immigrants and families instead of holding hateful and unproductive events that demonize… Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led a letter signed by Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee to President Donald Trump, urging him to comply with Robert Mueller’s request to sit for an interview as part of the Special Counsel investigation. The letter was signed by Democratic Members of the U.S. House… Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), held a press conference to address President Trump’s outrageous “demands” on the Department of Justice as part of his continued attacks against the DOJ and the FBI, and to release a new letter to the President regarding his reluctance to sit with Special Counsel Mueller… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, joined Representatives Peter J. Roskam (R-IL), Ted Deutch (D-FL), and Doug Collins (R-GA), along with Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Bob Casey (D-PA) to introduce bipartisan legislation to combat the rising tide of anti-Semitism in schools and on college campuses across the nation. The… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA), Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) spearheaded an effort by 127 House Democrats to call on Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney to uphold the Health Care Rights Law, also known as Section… Read more »

Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) of the House Judiciary Committee released the following statement in response to the effort by President Trump and Congressional Republicans to undercut the Special Counsel investigation by pressuring the Department of Justice to expose the role of a top-secret FBI source:  “A deliberate decision to expose the… Read more »

Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) of the House Committee on the Judiciary, delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 5682, the “FIRST STEP Act.” “I rise in opposition to H.R. 5682, the “FIRST STEP Act.”  On principle, I cannot support legislation which fails to address the larger issue of… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office oversight hearing: “The patent landscape has changed considerably in less than a decade.  Starting with passage in 2011 of the America Invents Act, known as the AIA, and followed by a number… Read more »

Today, in a 5-4 decision written by Judge Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held in Epic Systems v. Lewis that employers may use forced arbitration to circumvent workers’ rights to band together to hold employers accountable for wage theft and other misconduct. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to… 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… Read more »