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House Judiciary Committee Republicans plan to call former FBI official Timothy Thibault in for questioning as part of their forthcoming investigation into alleged “abuse and misconduct” by senior officials at the agency.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have begun rolling out their investigative plans for next year in the wake of securing the House majority, and their plans include questioning nearly a dozen individuals within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released a lengthy report detailing how the Justice Department and FBI are “broken” on Friday, days ahead of the midterms in which the GOP is heavily favored to retake the House majority.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, sent notices to the Justice Department and FBI on Wednesday effectively previewing investigations into the agencies that the committee plans to conduct should Republicans take the majority.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a preservation notice Friday to former FBI official Timothy Thibault, warning Thibault to save records related to the multiple whistleblower allegations he is facing in the event Republicans take the majority and are able to conduct a formal investigation.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, has been fielding whistleblower allegations against the FBI since last November.

Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee formalized their promise to investigate the Department of Justice and FBI, should Republicans take the majority in November, by sending “preservation notices” to both entities on Monday.

New York Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman who helped bring impeachment against former President Donald Trump, cheered the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago, the home of the former president.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said Wednesday that the DOJ and FBI “illegally suppressed information” on Hunter Biden.

During Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) claimed that a stabilizing brace turns an AR-pistol into an “automatic weapon.”

House Judiciary Committee Democrats aligned and voted unanimously to pass an “assault weapons” ban on Wednesday while committee Republicans all voted against the measure. 

The House Judiciary Committee is moving forward next week with reviewing legislation sponsored by Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) that would ban so-called “assault weapons.”

A man in the audience of the January 6 Committee hearing on Tuesday struggled to stay awake, as seen in a video that shows the man dozing off during a witness testimony.

Following the House Judiciary Committee’s advancing legislation to raise the age limit for purchasing semi-automatic rifles, along with remarks by President Joe Biden urging more gun-control measures after several recent mass shootings, U.S. congressional candidate and state Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R-FL) blasted Democrat attempts to limit the Second Amendment, denouncing the “hypocritical” efforts by those who “don’t believe in freedom” and “hate our country.”

Progressive Democrat Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said during a House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that Democrats would go to extraordinary lengths to pass major gun control.

Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee will hold a vote on a gun control package Thursday which contains a ban on “high capacity” magazines and requires a background check for “ghost guns.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) confronted Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a hearing Thursday about the 1.2 million illegal aliens living freely in America who have received final orders of deportation.

Republicans in Congress have laid out ample evidence that President Joe Biden’s administration is “erasing immigration enforcement” as they prepare to confront DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a hearing this week, according to a memo.

President Joe Biden’s top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials intervened at the last minute to stop a group of Republican lawmakers from viewing the United States-Mexico border in the evening, when border crossers use holes in the unfinished border wall to cross illegally into the U.S. 

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) slammed Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) over his handling of an investigation into the National School Boards Association (NSBA) letter asking the Biden administration to investigate parents as “domestic terrorists,” as Democrats try to “pass this bill which is going to codify the whole plot.”

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is demanding answers from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) regarding its “collusion” with the Biden administration to use federal law enforcement to investigate parents attending school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.”

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) is leading a call for Judiciary Committee Democrats to hold a hearing to investigate if the Biden administration’s reduced border controls are being “exploited” by foreign terrorists.

Every year, more than 7,000 American citizens and green card-holders lose out on United States taxpayer-funded residencies to foreign nationals despite having earned their degrees as medical graduate physicians, bombshell congressional testimony reveals. 

Rep. Steube has yet to hear from the D.C. Department of Corrections, whose director he queried in July about the status of the Jan. 6 detainees.

Rep. Greg Steube told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily that Biden could face investigations into his China ties and open border policies.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) on Wednesday batted down an attempt by ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to subpoena officials involved in the FBI investigating concerned parents as “domestic terrorists” at the behest of the National School Boards Association (NSBA).

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats led by chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) called in a climate extremist to their hearing on Wednesday who will testify that the process of federal agency rulemaking is killing the environment and disadvantaging mainly racial minorities.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded on Thursday that the FBI submit to the House Judiciary Committee any records related to counterterrorism tools that the agency used against parents expressing outrage at school boards, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Republicans blasted the “disgrace[ful]” move, as well as Attorney General Merrick Garland, with many calling for his immediate resignation.

A whistleblower Tuesday revealed to the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI deployed “counterterrorism tools” to target concerned parents participating in local school board meetings.

House Judiciary Republicans disclosed a whistleblower showed FBI is using counterterrorism tactics to investigate parents, calling into question Garland’s sworn testimony.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee passed Rep. Lucy McBath’s (D-GA) red flag legislation on Wednesday.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) grilled U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday about the apparent double standard in prosecutions of January 6 rioters for offenses that Democratic members of Congress had committed without consequence.

House Judiciary Republicans are calling on members of the media to demand answers from President Biden, questioning if his administration believes Americans will be left behind in Afghanistan as the Taliban-approved August 31 deadline for U.S. withdrawal approaches.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans are calling on President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to testify before the committee amid a surge in illegal immigration during Biden’s first five months in office, according to a letter first obtained by Breitbart News.

Federal law enforcement agencies secretly request the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times per year, according to the congressional testimony of Tom Burt, the company’s VP for customer security and trust.