All posts tagged "House Judiciary Committee"

After Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced he plans to step down from a major leadership role, online critics are reacting with intrigue and mockery.

According to reporting by Politico on Wednesday, Jordan announced he will not seek a waiver to stay on as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Jordan has held the role for eight years, and he would need a waiver of the GOP's three-term limit on leaders of the Judiciary Committee to keep the gavel.

"I'm just not going to do it," Jordan told Politico. "I'm focused on one thing, one thing only: winning. If the left wins, where they want to take the country is very, very scary."...

The House Judiciary Committee is referring former Special Counsel Jack Smith for criminal prosecution, but analysts are dismissing it.

On Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) alleged that Smith "knowingly made false statements" and referred him to the Department of Justice for prosecution. Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, alleged in a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that "strong evidence" appears to show Smith lied during a December 17 testimony.

Smith is the prosecutor who brought two now-dismissed criminal cases against Trump relating to 2020 election interference and the retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The December 17 testimony mentioned in Jordan's letter refers to a closed-door House Judiciary deposition where Smith defended prosecuting Trump....

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) had a serious response on Thursday to reporting involving allegations of FBI Director Kash Patel's conduct and excessive drinking.

In an exclusive interview with Raw Story, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee described what could come after midterms if Democrats take control of Congress.

"It's going to look pretty good from my vantage point because, you know, we've been trying to investigate so many of the corrupt schemes that we see taking place, and a lot of the incompetence that we see taking place and just the mismanagement," Raskin told Raw Story. "And it comes out this week in The Atlantic magazine that the director of the FBI is passing out drunk; people can't find him. We already knew that he was abusing a lot of the resources of office in terms of the jets and the airplanes. We know that he's been working to cover up the Epstein files. And now it turns out that there's this major drinking problem, which is why we sent him a letter saying he needs to come clean."...

A CNN legal expert revealed something surprising during former special counsel Jack Smith's testimony on Thursday.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig described how Smith omitted something in his first public testimony over his investigations of President Donald Trump before the House Judiciary Committee hearing. CNN anchor Briana Keilar asked Honig to respond to the questions involving the timing around Smith's pursuit of going to trial against Trump.

"To your question, Brianna, the last congressman we saw brought up the fact that Jack Smith demanded a trial date four months out, five months out in a case involving 13 million pages of documents," Honig said. "There is no defense lawyer in the country who can constitutionally prepare for trial and defend his client on that short of time frame. The implication was you were rushing to get this in before the 2024 election. Jack Smith did not defend himself, by the way. He didn't say a word about that, which I found, I found strange... And he didn't defend."...

The official X account for the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee posted a Christmas Eve message declaring Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is “definitely a Republican.”

The account for the committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) then proceeded to tick down a list of qualities that it deemed specific to the Republican brand, including “Doubted by the elites,” “pulled himself up by his bootstraps,” “faced adversity” and “carried the team when others couldn’t.”

Social media quickly flushed the claim, with one X user pointing out that, “He wasn’t on Epstein’s island, [though].”...

WASHINGTON — Republican House Judiciary chair Jim Jordan expects Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to appear in front of his committee when the House returns in September, even though their appearance will allow Democrats to grill the pair about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his close links to Donald Trump.

“‘They're going to get asked all kinds of questions,” Jordan said.

Jordan, from Ohio, wants to ask Bondi and Patel about documents released on Wednesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, as part of attempts to portray President Barack Obama and other top officials acting to undermine Trump after his victory in the 2016 election....