National Security

House Judiciary Democrats Call for Emergency Hearings after Administration Official Reveals Russia Hacked U.S. Voter Rolls in 2016

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Tags: Civil Liberties, Constitution, Crime, Government Oversight, National Security

Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee in sending a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) calling for immediate hearings examining the U.S. election infrastructure after a senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official revealed that Russia hacked U.S. voter rolls. The letter asks the Majority for emergency hearings to look... Read more »

Judiciary Democrats: Republicans are Complicit in Efforts to Obstruct Justice with Release of Nunes Memo

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Tags: Civil Liberties, Constitution, Government Oversight, Immigration, National Security

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a joint statement following the release of the “Nunes memo,” a set of misleading talking points drafted by the Republican staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in an attempt to discredit the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and undermine... Read more »

Nadler Requests Judiciary Committee Immediately Hear from FBI Director Wray on Nunes Memo

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Tags: Civil Liberties, Constitution, Crime, Government Oversight, Immigration, National Security

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), to request an emergency briefing with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, on his concerns regarding the “Nunes memo,” a set of misleading talking points drafted by the Republican staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that House ... Read more »

FACT-CHECKING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SOTU IMMIGRATION STATEMENTS

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Tags: Antitrust, Border Security, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Copyright, Crime, Government Oversight, Immigration, Intellectual Property, National Security, Overcriminalization, Patent and Trademark, Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law (115th Congress), Constitution and Civil Justice (115th Congress), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet (114th Congress), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations (115th Congress), Immigration and Border Security (115th Congress)

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NADLER ON NUNES “MEMO”: ANOTHER GOP PLOY TO DISTRACT FROM RUSSIA INVESTIGATION, DEFLECT FROM INACTION TO SECURE U.S. ELECTIONS & ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT FBI & MUELLER’S INVESTIGATION

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Tags: Crime, National Security

Recent reports show the Trump Administration and its Republican supporters in Congress working to undermine the Special Counsel’s investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government—including placing the FBI Director under so much pressure to fire his Deputy Director that he threatened to resign, accusing FBI investigators of “treason,” and drafting the so-called “... Read more »