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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 11h

NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin and Swalwell issued the following statement on Senate Republicans’ latest attacks on the Department of Justice’s investigation and prosecution of Trump and his co-conspirators for their criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Ranking Members Raskin, Swalwell Statement on Senate Republicans’ Misdirected Outrage Regarding DOJ’s Investigation of the Criminal Conspiracy to Overturn the 2020 Presidential Election

Washington, D.C. (October 8, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021, released the following statement on Senate Republicans’ latest attacks on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation and prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators for their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election:

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 13h

Ranking Members Raskin and Scott are demanding a federal criminal investigation into the Trump Administration’s commandeering of furloughed career civil servants’ email accounts to send partisan out-of-office messages, in violation of the First Amendment and criminal law.

House Democrats demand DOJ probe into partisan out-of-office emails sent without furloughed workers’ consent

The federal government shutdown is now nearing the one-week mark, with no end to the impasse in sight. Follow for live updates.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 1d

Trump’s Department of Justice is not upholding the rule of law.

Instead, it protects Trump’s interests by shielding his corrupt allies from legal trouble, targeting his supposed enemies, and using the legal system as a partisan weapon.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 1d

Even his own appointees are refusing to carry out his revenge and retribution campaign. In response, he's fired them and replaced them with invertebrate sycophants.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 1d

Trump is using the Justice Department as his personal law firm to protect himself and friends and as a weapon to punish people, organizations and states he doesn't like.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 1d

Why won’t Speaker Johnson allow Bondi to testify in the House Judiciary Committee?

The American people deserve transparency, and we should not be covering up disgraceful and dangerous crimes.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 1d

Meantime, the Senate Judiciary Committee is proceeding with its hearing with AG Bondi today. So we’ll have more time to prepare.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 1d

Speaker Johnson is so desperate to avoid a vote to release the Epstein files that he cancelled votes this week in the House, thus preventing AG Bondi from testifying before the House Judiciary Committee.

The smell of cover-up is thick.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 3d

Why is Secretary Noem telling President Trump and other felons they “shouldn’t be coming to the Super Bowl”? The Super Bowl is for all Americans—even Kristi Noem, who thinks the NFL “sucks.”

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 3d

The monthly jobs report is missing.

That’s no mistake.

It’s a deliberate move to hide sagging economic performance.

In Trump’s Orwellian Gangster State, all inconvenient facts are suppressed.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 6d

Ranking Member Raskin on Trump's halt to refugee admissions: "The land of the free is now admitting refugees based on the whimsical political favor of the president, as opposed to the severity of their personal circumstances."

Read RM Raskin’s new op-ed:

Opinion | America must learn from its own history — and do better for refugees

Our decades-old program for the admission and resettlement of refugees to America has ground to a halt under President Donald Trump.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 9d

WATCH: RM Raskin questions FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on how Trump has turned the FCC from an independent agency into an instrument of authoritarian control over speech and society, and how this attack is central to the pervasive threat to our constitutional system.

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Representative Deborah Ross @ross.house.gov · 9d

The Trump admin and his Republican allies are shortchanging local law enforcement and vital programs that help crime victims by hundreds of millions of dollars.

That does not promote public safety.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 9d

Instead of building on that success, the Trump Administration reportedly plans to end this proven program.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 9d

WATCH: Fmr. U.S. Attorney Dena King explains how federal task forces like the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) used a prosecutor-led, multi-agency approach to dismantle organized crime and drug trafficking networks.

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Representative Deborah Ross @ross.house.gov · 9d

Republicans only care about scoring political points. Otherwise they wouldn't be cutting funding for law enforcement.

Today, I went to Charlotte to discuss crime and what we can actually do to combat it.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 9d

Public safety requires real resources, not empty talk.

WATCH: @ross.house.gov asks how communities can stay safe when the Trump Administration is slashing funds for federal law enforcement, substance abuse treatment, crisis intervention, and more.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 10d

…and the President tells universities what to teach and who to hire.

Where are all the First Amendment crusaders when it comes to actual state censorship?

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 10d

Journalists are threatened, sued and shaken down by the President and FCC; comedians are forced off the air; books deemed politically incorrect are banned; lawyers are barred from federal buildings and jobs by Executive Order because of who they represent…

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 10d

MAGA cheered YouTube’s reversal as a “free speech” victory. But what’s the actual state of free speech in America?

YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for violating its COVID-19 and election content policies

It could mean a YouTube comeback for prominent conservative voices like Dan Bongino and Steve Bannon.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 11d

The result is an algorithmic wasteland where scams and foreign bots target seniors, teens are fed content promoting self-harm, and incitement to political violence spreads.

That’s the bitter fruit of a fake crusade against private “censorship.”

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 11d

Bowing to MAGA, Alphabet is reinstating foreign and domestic accounts that the company had itself banned for disinformation. This alleged win for “free speech” is just corporate surrender to propaganda and lies.

Ranking Member Raskin’s Statement on Alphabet’s Coerced Confession and Capitulation to MAGA Demands

Washington, D.C. (September 23, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement after Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, informed the Committee that it would reinstate accounts previously banned for disinformation and violations of the company’s own policies, surrendering to political intimidation by House

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 12d

NEWS: Rep. Deborah Ross and RM Jamie Raskin lead Judiciary Democrats in urging Chairman Jordan to invite Epstein survivors to testify before the Judiciary Committee, stressing that survivors’ voices are essential to understanding institutional breakdowns and strengthening victim protections.

Rep. Ross and Ranking Member Raskin Lead Judiciary Democrats in Urging Chairman Jordan to Invite Epstein Survivors to Testify Before Judiciary Committee

Washington, D.C. (September 26, 2025)—Today, Rep. Deborah Ross and Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, led Judiciary Democrats in sending a letter to Chairman Jim Jordan calling on him to allow survivors of convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their co-conspirators to testify before the Committee. Committee Democrats stressed that victim

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 12d

NEWS: RM Raskin demands answers from AG Bondi after Trump forced out a Republican U.S. Attorney who refused to bring baseless charges against his enemies, and for installing his personal defense lawyer with no prosecutorial experience as Acting U.S. Attorney in Virginia.

Ranking Member Raskin Demands Answers from Attorney General Bondi After Republican U.S. Attorney Is Forced Out for Refusing to File Baseless Charges Against Trump Enemies

Washington, D.C. (September 26, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to U.S.

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 13d

NEWS: RM Jamie Raskin’s statement on Trump’s DOJ filing criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey:

RELEASE: Ranking Member Raskin’s Statement on Trump’s DOJ Filing Criminal Charges Against Former FBI Director James Comey

Washington, D.C. (September 25, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to reports that the Trump Administration has obtained an indictment against former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey. This move comes after Trump forced the resignation of Erik Siebert, the Republican, Trump-appointed former Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who concluded there was no basis to bring criminal charges against Mr. Comey:

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