Jerry Nadler Stepping Down From Top Spot On Judiciary Committee, Endorses Jamie Raskin
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Nadler's move clears the way for Raskin to be the influential committee's top Democrat.
WASHINGTON ― Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced Wednesday he wouldn’t run to be the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee next year, endorsing Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) as his replacement.
“As our country faces the return of Donald Trump, and the renewed threats to our democracy and our way of life that he represents, I am very confident that Jamie would ably lead the Judiciary Committee as we confront this growing danger,” Nadler wrote in a letter to his colleagues obtained by The Associated Press.
Democrats are reshuffling the deck after a disappointing election that many hoped would give them control of the House of Representatives, only for Republicans to hang on, albeit with an even tinier majority than they had for the past two years.
Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, announced his bid to take over as the top Democrat on judiciary this week, saying the committee would be “the headquarters of Congressional opposition to authoritarianism.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told HuffPost on Wednesday that she might run to replace Raskin as the ranking member of the Oversight Committee, though she would need to beat Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) for the job.
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