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Attorney General Pam Bondi sparred with Democratic lawmakers and faced pointed questions from a Republican ally during a contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, as the Justice Department’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein records and its pursuit of President Donald Trump’s critics fueled hours of heated exchanges. The roughly 4½-hour hearing …

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday released the full transcript and video of former special counsel Jack Smith’s closed-door deposition before the Republican-led panel earlier this month, making public more than eight hours of testimony detailing his criminal cases against President Donald Trump. The release includes a 255-page transcript and …

Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder The U.S. House Judiciary Committee Monday filed suit against Attorney General Merrick Garland, in an ongoing effort to obtain audio recordings from President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel during an investigation of the president’s handling of classified documents. The suit, filed in the U.S. District …

Jimmy Williams House Republicans took a significant step toward holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress after he skipped a closed-door deposition last month. The House Judiciary Committee and Oversight Committee voted along party lines to recommend contempt charges against the son of President Joe Biden, paving the way for …

House Democrats on Wednesday questioned former special counsel John Durham about his report criticizing the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia during the 2016 election. Republicans highlighted Durham’s findings that the Russia probe should not have been initiated, claiming it was a politically motivated attack on the …

Ariana Figueroa, South Dakota Searchlight House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee blamed the Biden administration for fentanyl drug smuggling at the U.S.-Mexico border during a Wednesday hearing. Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio also blamed U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for the number of migrants at the border, …

Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder The U.S. House Judiciary Committee last week passed legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons, in a renewed push to ban the guns most commonly used in recent mass shootings. The party-line 25-18 vote followed recent mass shootings in which AR-15 style rifles were used — …

Democrats on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee have unveiled a gun control legislative package that they plan to mark up Thursday morning. The package, named the Protecting Our Kids Act, is made up of eight bills related to gun control, all first introduced in 2021 by Democratic lawmakers. Only one had …

by Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent May 18, 2022 WASHINGTON — The national debate over abortion rights raged in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, as Democrats warned of the dangers of a potential end to the constitutional right and Republicans argued that legislatures should determine abortion laws. The hearing …