Jerry Nadler

There is no question that SB 8 is blatantly unconstitutional, and that the Texas legislature intentionally ignore decades of legal precedent in enacting the law.

Sixty-five days, that is how long women in Texas have been effectively stripped of their constitutional right to abortion.

I would think that that would be a superior route because it is proven impossible, despite the STOCK Act and various other acts that we have passed, to enforce the law.

I would like to see this pass as fast as possible. I have wanted to see it pass as fast as possible for at least a dozen years.

If he became chair of Judiciary, he would give us a real hearing, and he delivered on his promise in 2020.

Mr. Attorney General, you're a man of great integrity, and under your leadership the Department of Justice is off to a good start.

They're lying about the election. They're lying about COVID. They're lying about the Department of Justice.

I would just urge the Department of Justice, as it has been doing under your leadership to continue to do all that's possible to defend and protect the integrity of the right to vote.

The EQUAL Act of 2021 represents an important step in our efforts to reform the criminal justice system. I thank Representatives Jeffries, Scott, Armstrong, and Bacon for their leadership in introducing this important legislation and for…

When a lack of competition gives employers excessive power over workers, employers have the incentives and the ability to abuse that power.

America's economy has become highly concentrated in recent decades.

In 1970 I watched the New York State Assembly pass one of the first State laws legalizing abortion. If you had told me then that 51 years later, I would be standing on the House floor still fighting for women to have the right to make…

We have one final Speaker who will close for us, so I reserve the balance of my time.

Congress must Act where the court has failed voters across the country.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is rightly regarded by many as among the most sacred texts of our Nation's civic religion.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank you for convening this important hearing at a critical moment in the life of our Nation, when our democracy itself is under greater threat than it has been in decades because of the sustained assault on the…

It is essential that we examine a wide range of topics as part of this series.

In 2005, as the Ranking Member of this Subcommittee, I fought against the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, a disastrous amendment to the Bankruptcy Code that stacked the deck against everyday consumers in favor of…

Ultimately, what the DOJ found in Ferguson is occurring in jurisdictions across the country.

This financial shell game does not measure the real cost to communities.

I would remind the Ranking Member that the Constitution, that was the Fourteenth amendment which it didn't have when the Federalist Papers was written which changes things a little.

I am very pleased that the Nadler-Jackson Lee bill, Victims of Crime Act Fix, was signed into law last week.

I think that is absolutely true. And I think using the description that Chairman Sherman started with, of the baseball game...

One of the most important aspects of what rating agencies do is this ongoing surveillance.

To remedy the harm done by Shelby County, Congress should restore preclearance by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.