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Washington, D.C.  – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 17-10 the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2015 (H.R. 3892), which calls on the State Department to recognize the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization in order to better protect national security. The Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, remains headquartered in Egypt but operates throughout the world.

Chairman Goodlatte: I was troubled to learn that the State Department has never designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. Since the Muslim Brotherhood formed in Egypt in 1928, it has sought to foster the establishment of a global Islamic state and jihadism in Muslims around the world.  The Brotherhood’s strategic goal “in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is

Chairman Goodlatte: The Nation’s legal lights faded recently, with the loss of the great Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. But they will not be dimmed for long.  For Justice Scalia left a legacy of illumination that will continue far beyond his mortal years. Although Justice Scalia is no longer with us on Earth, his cogent, witty, and plain-spoken writings will continue to educate law students and good citizens everywhere for centuries to come. Justice Scalia was no mere legal technician.

Washington, D.C.—House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today joined 205 members of the House and Senate who have signed an amicus brief to support petitioners in the State of West Virginia et al v. EPA litigation pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The petitioners are challenging the U.S.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on the plan issued by the Department of Defense to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and relocate detainees in the United States: “The Obama Administration thinks enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay deemed too dangerous for release to foreign countries should be brought to

Washington, D.C.  – On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on “International Conflicts of Law Concerning Cross Border Data Flow and Law Enforcement Requests.” As the use of technology has spread around the world, international conflicts of law concerning law enforcement’s access to stored data outside of its jurisdiction have presented many challenges.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of February 22-26, 2016.   WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2410:00 a.m. | Full Committee Markup

H.R. 3892, the “Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2015”

Washington, D.C.—House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement on President Obama’s intention to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court of the United States left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia during the president’s last year in office: “It does not take a constitutional scholar to understand the influence a Supreme Court justice has on shaping the future of our country.