Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions explicitly refused a demand by the Democrats on the committee to either assert executive privilege or divulge his private conversations with President Donald Trump.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has begun a corruption probe investigating the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal first brought to light in Clinton Cash, the explosive book by Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer.
Bill Hartzell — whose 93-year-old grandmother was beaten, raped, and murdered by a twice-deported illegal alien — asked members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to imagine sacrificing someone they love for those who are here illegally.
An illegal alien, thanks to the Obama-created DACA temporary amnesty program, was allowed to work in a children’s summer camp, where he eventually was accused of molesting a child and collecting child pornography.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday in favor of Joan Larsen and Amy Coney Barrett to be federal appeals judges. Pundits say this committee action increases pressure on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans to reform procedural roadblocks so that senators can vote on the Senate floor to confirm the growing number of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees.
The FBI’s assistant director of the Office of Congressional Affairs has sent a letter to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, informing him the agency is in receipt of the committee’s criminal referrals of Planned Parenthood and its partners in the fetal tissue procurement industry.
Senate Democrats are under fire for handing a religious test to a judicial nominee about her Catholic faith and how it allegedly would affect her judgment while serving on the bench.
Ohio swing voters, comprised of independents and Democrats, who voted for President Donald Trump overwhelmingly support cuts to legal immigration levels.
Donald Trump Jr. will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors, the committee announced Tuesday.
Democrats are trying to resurrect their unprecedented filibuster of judicial nominees through the blue slip tradition, but Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has the power to stop this obstruction.
TEL AVIV — The Obama administration thought the 35-page dossier compiled on President Trump was a “funny, salacious thing,” according to Marie Harf, a former spokesperson and senior official in the State Department under President Obama.
The Russia conspiracy theory so beloved by the media and the Democratic Party fell apart this week — though it was easy to miss, amidst the chaos at the White House and the collapse of Congress’s effort to repeal Obamacare.
Citing alleged U.S. intelligence intercepts leaked by current and former U.S. officials, the Washington Post reported that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak told his superiors at the Kremlin that he discussed issues related to the 2016 presidential campaign with Jeff Sessions despite the attorney general’s assertions to the contrary.
The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), warned President Donald Trump on Wednesday that his committee would not consider any additional nominations for Attorney General for the rest of 2017.
The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has yet to respond to letters from the chairs of congressional committees that made criminal referrals regarding allegations that Planned Parenthood and its partners in the biomedical procurement industry profited from the sale of the body parts of aborted babies.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Donald Trump Jr. will appear before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next week, the committee announced Wednesday — while Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will reportedly appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed hearing.
TEL AVIV — Information contained inside a Washington Post article may disprove perhaps the most infamous claim made by the already discredited, 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote to DHS Secretary John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday asking how a Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. last year was allowed to stay in the U.S. for at least six months after her immigration parole expired.
Christopher Wray, President Donald Trump’s pick to succeed James Comey as director of the FBI, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, the first step in his campaign for Senate confirmation.
CNN played a critical role in originally publicizing the existence of a 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump that would later become largely discredited.
The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Friday it sent four investigatory letters, including one to former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. immigration officers keep apprehending and deporting members of the brutal Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, but they keep sneaking back across the southwest border into the United States, a high-ranking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official told lawmakers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a “rather long list” of sanctuary cities across the United States that choose to release incarcerated members of the notoriously violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang back into U.S. communities rather than allow immigration agents to prosecute and deport them, testified a federal officer under oath before lawmakers.
CNN cut away from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, seconds after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) raised concerns that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had hired a former Clinton Foundation attorney to assist with the probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
A bipartisan group of powerful senators is asking the man believed to have helped ex-FBI Director James Comey leak his infamous “let this go” memo to the media to produce that memo for them.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is pushing for a federal investigation of the Fifth Avenue-based Kushner Companies for seemingly promising Chinese investors legal residence in America for buying into a New Jersey real estate development.
President Donald Trump’s plan for a merit-based immigration system has billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundation in hysterics.
President Donald Trump’s latest pick to aid in an “America First” immigration plan is now being attacked by a media agency funded by billionaire George Soros.
A reporter tweeted that Comey denied any interference in the agency’s investigations while under oath at a Senate hearing earlier this month.
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified last week in Congress. While the overarching media narrative focused on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s potential compromise by Russia, there are other important facts.
How things have changed. Only nine days ago, James Comey, then director of the FBI, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on FBI oversight that he had never been an anonymous source for news reports related to the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race.
Federal immigration officials say they will no longer halt deportations for illegal immigrants based on the prospect that pending legislation could grant them amnesty.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called out Breitbart News by name Monday when he asked former National Security Director James Clapper about “far-right” sites being “used in a Russian cyber-operation” during the 2016 elections.
On Monday, in a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) exposed former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates’s ignorance of the law, and the partisan nature of her decision to refuse to enforce President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending travel from several terror-prone countries.
Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates appeared to agree that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was “compromised” by his interactions with Russian government officials.
Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates declined to say any Presidential candidates had their communications intercepted by American intelligence during the 2016 campaign Monday.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper categorically denied any political or “voyeuristic” motive to the “unmasking” of Trump campaign associates when he addressed the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Monday.
Missing from much of the news media coverage over FBI Director James Comey’s testimony last week that long-time top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin regularly forwarded classified emails to her husband, Anthony Weiner, is that the revelation directly contradicts Abedin’s own claims from last November about how the emails famously made it to Weiner’s laptop computer.
President Donald Trump’s successful appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is a major achievement that not even his critics can deny, one that has been a tremendous credit to Trump, with no political downside.
During yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on FBI oversight, FBI Director James B. Comey repeatedly refused to answer questions about his agency’s ties to the controversial, partially discredited 35-page dossier alleging collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.