On September 17, 1787, 39 delegates signed the Constitution, establishing popular government and the rule of law over kings to protect the rights of the people. Since then, it has evolved through amendments that protect freedom of speech and political equality….

NEWS: Republicans just blocked our effort to subpoena Trump's Treasury Secretary, who has in his possession records relating to $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions flagged by banks that are related to Epstein's sex trafficking ring.

The data is unambiguous: in 2024, every extremist-related murder was committed by right-wing extremists, eight tied to white supremacists, the third straight year with the same result. Trump might try to hide reports that highlight the threat of right-wing violence, but the data remains undeniable.

NEWS: Kash Patel says he’s “following the money,” but he's not. Judiciary Democrats are moving to subpoena the CEOs of four banks that have flagged $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions related to the sex trafficking crimes of Epstein, Maxwell, and their co-conspirators.

Ranking Members Raskin and Swalwell are urging Republicans to ensure the new Jan. 6 Select Subcommittee holds public hearings, works in a bipartisan manner, and continues the historic, fact-based work of the previous select committee…

NEWS: As the Epstein scandal spreads, Judiciary Democrats release a new memo showing how the Trump Administration repeatedly sided with sex offenders and human traffickers over their victims…

FBI Director Kash Patel steps before @democrats-judiciary.house.gov on Wednesday. America wants answers about the ongoing coverup allowing Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their billionaire pals to thwart justice for trafficking victims and accountability for predators.

NEWS: Rep. Raskin presses FBI Director Patel, ahead of his Judiciary Committee hearing, to provide documents and information on the extent to which the FBI and DOJ suppressed evidence of ties between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: “Who exactly are you protecting and why"?

Rep. Raskin asks Republicans: are you with transparency and accountability or with human traffickers and their protectors? That’s why he’s demanding the full release of the Epstein files so the American people can see the truth and put an end to this corruption and cover-up.

Today Rep. Raskin offered an amendment requiring the full release of the Epstein file as Judiciary Republicans consider a bill on human trafficking. Chairman Jordan and GOP Members shamefully voted against a key opportunity to get answers and instead voted on the side of coverup.

After cutting millions of dollars in grants to support survivors of sexual assault, Trump now minimizes domestic violence as "things that take place in the home" and  “a little fight with the wife.”

NEWS: RM Raskin opens probe into FHFA Director Bill Pulte for abusing the agency to carry out Trump’s political vendettas, including using Americans’ mortgage data to launch baseless fraud claims against the President’s enemies.

NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin and Nadler rebuke DOJ’s corrupt settlement of the HPE–Juniper merger and reiterate serious concerns that the Trump Administration yielded to lobbyists over the advice of antitrust experts, as the settlement is considered in court.

Trump tried hard to justify his unlawful deployment of troops to police protests in Los Angeles. But a federal judge ruled that his use of the National Guard for local policing violated federal law. Our Framers strongly opposed rulers who turn armies against citizens.

Trump’s war on Harvard was intended to dictate admissions, hiring, and curricular decisions. When the university refused to bend, he froze $2B in federal research grants to impose his will on the nation’s oldest university…

Our GOP colleagues rail about Europe while cheering Trump’s censorship of broadcast media, attacks on the free press, assault on academic freedom and firing of federal workers. Rep. Scanlon reminds the GOP: the First Amendment is under attack here in America.

RM Jamie Raskin explains that Republicans’ fixation on Europe’s online safety laws is all a distraction. When Trump is banning books and detaining students for exercising their First Amendment Rights, the Republicans need to start looking closer to home.

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin delivers opening remarks during today’s hearing; the real threat to free speech isn’t across the Atlantic. It is on our doorstep.

NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin, Crockett, Jayapal are pressing “Border Czar” Tom Homan over his apparent conflict of interest regarding his past paid consulting work for troubled immigration detention conglomerate GEO Group, which has already secured $1 billion in new federal contracts under Trump.

A convicted sex trafficker doesn’t get transferred overnight to “Club Fed” for no reason. Trump’s DOJ arranged Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer after his former defense lawyer, now on the DOJ payroll, visited her and pronounced himself satisfied with her answers. RM Raskin is demanding the facts.

NEWS: RM Raskin and RM Pallone launch an investigation into the $8 billion Skydance-Paramount merger, which includes CBS News, after the company agreed to pay millions of dollars and provide free services to Trump prior to the merger.

Trump fired a nonpartisan economic expert in charge of U.S. labor data who had decades of experience and replaced her with an unqualified Trump extremist caught in this photo at the Capitol on Jan 6.

Trump’s new crypto assets are worth $2.9 billion, plus he’s got an illegal $400 million luxury jet from the Emirs of Qatar, with a billion-dollar retrofit funded by us “suckers and losers” who pay taxes.

This isn't for public safety in D.C. Trump’s actions jeopardize that: stopping D.C. from spending $1 billion on law enforcement and schools, firing dozens of experienced prosecutors who fight violent crime. This is for public show and it’s illegal.

The only "emergency" here is a lawless president facing a growing public relations crisis because of his close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and his telling refusal to release the Epstein files despite his promise to do so.

The most violent day in D.C.’s modern history wasn’t this year. It was January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump incited a mob to storm the Capitol and “fight like hell” to block the peaceful transfer of power.

So Trump and Stephen Miller want masked men in unmarked cars to make warrantless arrests based on rampant ethnic and racial profiling. Gee, what could go wrong with this plan?

Trump’s seizing control of D.C.’s local police in a power grab to distract from his refusal to release the Epstein file. But, according to the DOJ, violent crime in D.C.’s at a 30-year low. He should have activated the National Guard on January 6, 2021, not for a PR crisis now.

If Donald Trump were truly concerned about crime and public safety, he wouldn’t have fired the career prosecutors fighting violent crime simply because they prosecuted his cop-beating January 6 criminals, whom he pardoned on day one.

In another transparent ploy to distract America from his coverup of the Epstein files, Trump now wants to militarize the District of Columbia. Give D.C. statehood and the billion dollars Republicans impounded.

NEWS: RM Jamie Raskin’s statement on Trump’s unprecedented takeover of local police in Washington, D.C.:

After DOGE fired hundreds of meteorologists and forecasters from the National Weather Service in the name of “efficiency,” they’re now desperately scrambling to hire them all back.

Joe Rogan accused the Trump Administration of gaslighting the public over Epstein, and Trump is indeed the perfect swamp creature, weaponizing government to protect himself and his billionaire buddies—the fraudsters, sex predators, and tax cheats. This is their public philosophy.

NEWS: Ranking Member Raskin’s statement on the Trump Administration's firing of former FBI Acting Director Brian Driscoll:

Let’s pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Sixty years ago, the Voting Rights Act codified a fundamental and hard-won promise of American democracy: to protect every citizen’s right to vote.   Today, that promise is under savage attack by voter suppression, election subversion and extreme gerrymandering.

Trump’s economy just posted the weakest job growth over a 3-month period since COVID. In his Gangster State, public institutions serve private ripoffs, and the economy staggers under the weight of corruption, tariffs, and plunder. The people pay for the plutocrats.

With Trump in office, prices are rising, homeownership is out of reach for tens of millions, and job growth just hit its weakest 3-month stretch since the Great Recession (excluding COVID).  What’s Trump’s big idea?

Trump took a $400 million gift—a royal jet from Qatar, then allegedly rerouted $934 million from U.S. nuclear defense funds to upgrade it.

Trump’s throwing a tantrum about the bleak jobs report caused by his own imbecilic policies. He’s blaming the messenger and just fired the Commissioner of Labor Statistics responsible for compiling jobs data.

NEW: Ranking Member Raskin urges Majority Leader Thune, Minority Leader Schumer to reject the radical MAGA nominee Jeanine Pirro, who is wildly unfit to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C., prioritizing her blind loyalty to Trump over the Constitution.

TUNE IN AT 1 PM EST/6 PM GMT as Ranking Member @raskin.house.gov delivers a speech at @chathamhouse.org in London on the state of U.S. transatlantic diplomacy: x.com/i/broadcasts...

🚨Read RM @raskin.house.gov's statement on Trump's maneuver to unlawfully install Alina Habba as U.S. Attorney in N.J. by sidestepping her court-appointed replacement and the constitutional requirement of Senate confirmation: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

🚨Watch RM @raskin.house.gov break down why Trump’s Gangster State enforcer Emil Bove is “utterly unqualified” for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench:

Ranking Member Raskin sent a letter to Chairman Jordan last week demanding a public hearing on the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse ring and a subpoena for Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Patel. The American people want complete answers. Come on Judiciary GOP, let’s get this done.

RELEASE THE FILES.

NEW: RM @RepRaskin's statement on @JudiciaryGOP's fruitless fixation on peddling expired conspiracy theories regarding former Special Counsel Weiss’s investigation and prosecution of Hunter Biden: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Trump and his allies spent years promoting conspiracy theories about Epstein and promising transparency with the files if elected again. Now that he controls the DOJ and the FBI, Trump is doing the opposite—burying the truth. WHY? The American people want answers. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

The Trump Administration made Epstein conspiracies central to their political brand. Now that Trump controls the government, he’s not so eager to release the Epstein files. www.npr.org/2025/07/16/n...

Donald Trump once promised transparency on the Epstein files. Now he’s calling his own supporters “stupid” and “weaklings” simply for demanding the truth he once demanded. What’s he so desperately hiding? America wants the truth. Release the damn files. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...