The House Judiciary chair and New York congressman has brawled with Donald Trump for more than 30 years
Nadler, who stands five feet four and prefers sweater vests and impossibly high-waisted trousers, could reasonably pass for a judge or a law professor, and the ease with which he dismantles Barr’s no-obstruction argument suggests he missed his true calling in the courtroom. “For example — and just to be very obvious about it — I am suspected of committing the crime of bank robbery,” he tells me. “I know I didn’t do it.
As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Nadler has a front-row seat to what he describes as the “borderline criminal and certainly anti-democratic” actions of the president. More than that, he is the lawmaker with the most power to check Trump’s lawlessness. The Judiciary Committee’s mandate, Nadler says, is safeguarding the norms and laws of this country; his portfolio of issues includes immigration, civil rights, criminal justice and much more.
To Nadler, the centerpiece of Trump’s new project looked like “a huge phallic symbol,” but he kept that to himself. He asked Trump, “What’s the highest people live in New York?”“And I suppose you’ll live on the 150th floor here?” Nadler said. “He’s got to be a smart and nimble tactician. seeing the work of the committee on multiple levels,” says Judiciary member Pramila Jayapal. “Jerry is pretty uniquely positioned to do that.” Photo credt: Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times/Redux
He came to Congress in 1992, and has carved out a reputation as a liberal stalwart with votes against Bill Clinton’s three-strikes crime bill, the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, the Patriot Act and the Iraq War. He clashed with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani over the decision to allow New Yorkers to return to Lower Manhattan days after the September 11th attacks despite potential health problems due to air quality. “I get sick today when I hear Giuliani referred to as America’s mayor,” Nadler says.
At a members-only briefing the day before, Nadler had urged his fellow Democrats not to engage with their Republican counterparts on the committee, who would undoubtedly use any rhetorical ploy they could to grind the proceedings to a halt or turn it into a partisan circus. Right on cue, Rep. Doug Collins accused Nadler of hypocrisy for his late-Nineties defense of Bill Clinton. Rep.
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