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Rep. Nadler to step aside as Democratic Judiciary leader for a younger chair

Thursday, December 5 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- The House Judiciary Committee will see a changing of the guard in the 119th Congress with a new Democratic leader.Rep. Jerry Nadler announced Wednesday that he would not run to be the top Democrat on the committee, which he has been for... Read More.

Judiciary Committee senators suggest a Gaetz confirmation hearing could get fiery

Tuesday, November 19 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump has been calling Senate Republicans to push for now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be confirmed as attorney general as lawmakers continue to raise concerns over the nomination.Gaetz was being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for alleged sexual misconduct... Read More.

Fani Willis, responding to House Judiciary subpoena, vows to bring Trumps election case to trial

Wednesday, March 27 by ABC News

(ATLANTA) -- Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis vowed to bring former President Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case to trial in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, arguing that her office has fully complied with a congressional subpoena related to... Read More.

Special counsel investigating Hunter Biden appears before House Judiciary Committee

Tuesday, November 7 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- David Weiss, the special counsel investigating President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, appeared for voluntary testimony Tuesday behind closed doors before the House Judiciary Committee.It's rare for a special counsel to testify before a congressional committee while an investigation is ongoing, and Weiss... Read More.

Three Senate Republicans vow to block Feinstein’s Judiciary replacement

Monday, April 17 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- At least three Republican senators have said they will not support a move to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on the Senate Judiciary Committee -- saying they wouldn't want to help Democrats advance President Joe Biden's agenda.On Monday afternoon, Sen. John Cornyn,... Read More.

Democrats move to ‘temporarily’ replace Feinstein on Judiciary Committee amid calls she resign

Thursday, April 13 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- With Sen. Dianne Feinstein requesting to be temporarily replaced on the Judiciary Committee as she recovers from shingles, Senate Democrats on Thursday began working to break the logjam that has held up critical judicial nominations for weeks.A spokesperson for Majority Leader Chuck... Read More.

House Judiciary chair subpoenas former prosecutor on Trump’s criminal case

Thursday, April 6 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- House Republicans on Thursday took the next step in their probe of the Manhattan district attorney's yearslong investigation of former President Donald Trump by issuing a subpoena to depose a former prosecutor in the office.House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, one of... Read More.

Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination

Monday, April 4 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's first nominee to the Supreme Court, is expected to pass a major milestone Monday on her way to expected Senate confirmation later this week.The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote Monday on whether to send Jackson's... Read More.

Senate Judiciary chair says Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases

Monday, March 28 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Dick Durbin, is calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases following reports that Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, had exchanged texts with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows,... Read More.

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