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 »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), acting Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, gave the following opening statement during an oversight hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.  Welcome to the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Rosenstein.  For the better part of a year, my colleagues… Read more »

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that you are bringing forward legislation today to address the scourge of human trafficking.  I strongly support providing new mechanisms for federal and state prosecutors, as well as victims, to hold accountable perpetrators of online sex trafficking.  I also recognize the need to balance these enforcement tools with respect for free… Read more »

Yesterday, the House passed H.R. 1730, the “Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act,”  by a vote of 402-2.  This bill would extend protections under current federal law for “religious real property.”  Currently, Section 247 of the Federal Criminal Code prohibits both the damaging of religious property because of the… Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s letter requesting Senate documents relating to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation of Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue research: “While this letter is nothing more than a procedural step, I… Read more »

Today, CNN reports that candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump, Jr., and others inside the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked documents—weeks before WikiLeaks began publishing the contents of those documents online.  Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) of the House Judiciary… Read more »

Today, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time during its annual oversight hearing. Ahead of the hearing, on December 3rd, President Donald Trump tweeted, “After years of Comey, with the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more), running the FBI, its reputation is in… Read more »

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.  Welcome to the House Judiciary Committee, Director Wray. Earlier this week, in a message to your agents and employees, you gave us your vision of what the FBI is supposed to be: “We find ourselves under the microscope each and every day—and rightfully so.  We do hard work for a living.  We are entrusted with protecting… Read more »