Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray had barely completed his opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee’s FBI oversight hearing when Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) began a rapid-fire barrage of pointed questions that culminated in a clash of utterly opposed perspectives. “On July 4th, we had this explosive, explosive 155-page opinion from a federal…

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wants House Appropriations Committee Chairman Kay Granger (R-Texas) to withhold funds intended for the design and construction of a new FBI headquarters complex somewhere in the Washington suburbs. But Mr. Jordan’s request doesn’t reflect a desire on his part to keep the FBI at its present location in…

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wants House Appropriations Committee Chairman Kay Granger (R-Texas) to withhold funds intended for the design and construction of a new FBI headquarters complex somewhere in the Washington suburbs. But Mr. Jordan’s request doesn’t reflect a desire on his part to keep the FBI at its present location in…

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is demanding copies of Department of Justice (DOJ) documents concerning the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid after being told by a senior FBI official involved in the action’s planning and execution about multiple “unusual features” and “abnormalities” involved. “Everything is on the table,” said a committee spokesman when asked by…

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is building on his reputation as a tenacious legislator who aggressively chases information and holds government officials to task. Spearheaded by Jordan, the committee is looking into FBI actions that Republicans contend are misdeeds and improper conduct aimed at derailing Donald Trump’s campaigns for president.   To that…

House Republicans have issued a request to have a transcribed interview with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official who oversees the deportations of illegal immigrants. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Chairman Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) issued the formal request (pdf) on June 5 to the Deputy…

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) are threatening to subpoena the CIA to force it to address claims of its involvement in an intelligence community letter to discredit reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Last week, the two Republican-controlled House committees published a report alleging the CIA’s…

House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter on May 8 to Alphabet—the corporate parent of Google and YouTube—stating that the company has not fully complied with a subpoena that the committee issued in early mid-February and demanding that it turn over all the information the subpoena ordered in relation to censorship concerns. The…

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) claims that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden misled Americans regarding the letter signed by 51 intelligence officials which alleged that Hunter Biden’s laptop contained Russian disinformation. Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, offered context about the events surrounding the story during an April 20 interview on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle,” after news…

By publishing a book about the investigation of former President Donald Trump, an ex-prosecutor created a predicament for himself—and for the man pressing the historic criminal case against Trump, District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg. A New York federal judge repeatedly cites the book written by Mark Pomerantz, who formerly worked on a probe into Trump’s…