News and updates from the Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans | Chairman @ChuckGrassley
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Under Chairman @ChuckGrassley's leadership, the Judiciary Committee has advanced and confirmed judges at the fastest pace since the Reagan administration.
Today, the committee advanced four judges and is holding a hearing on four more.
Bravo to @BrendanCarrFCC for taking action to combat contraband cell phones.
A cellphone in a prison is a deadly weapon. They're used to facilitate murder, coordinate drug and gang activity and strengthen criminal enterprises.
That's why Chairman @ChuckGrassley is leading legislation to make smuggling or possessing a contraband cellphone in federal prison a felony. Criminals should not be handed more weapons to commit further crimes.
The leftists over at the Washington Post want to export their suicidal empathy on the rest of us.
Happy to stand in the way.
Contraband cellphones are being used today by criminals to order hits, orchestrate kidnappings, run drug operations, produce child sexual abuse material, and perpetuate many more horrific acts from behind bars.
They are illegal today, and I’m glad the FCC will vote on giving law enforcement more tools to ensure the safety of law abiding families and communities.
NEW: Jack SMITH obtained Ted CRUZ draft fundraising emails that rallied Americans behind Republicans' agenda to:
✔️Lower taxes
✔️Reject socialism
✔️Protect national security
Democrats weaponized government against Republicans fighting for freedom and prosperity.
Chairman @ChuckGrassley’s statement on former FBI officials charged with lying to Congress ⬇️
“These two unelected bureaucrats used the power of government to smear my and @SenRonJohnson's constitutional oversight and distract from inconvenient truths that weaponized bureaucrats and the Biden administration didn’t want you to know. For years, Congress and the American people were fed lies from federal law enforcement, the Intelligence Community and the liberal media to protect the Bidens at all costs – all while Jack Smith burned up taxpayer dollars attempting to throw President Trump in prison.
“Today, we’re seeing accountability efforts in action. I appreciate the Department of Justice and the FBI’s work to root out government corruption and embrace transparency. At long last, Americans can see all the facts and evidence for themselves.”
Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris, 46, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Bradley Benavides, 56, of Aiken, South Carolina, surrendered today on arrest warrants issued after a criminal complaint charged them with lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden, announced @USAttyPirro.
The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.
Evidence shows that Floris discussed the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden routinely for more than a year both within the FITF and with others in the FBI. Contrary to his assertion that he learned of the Hunter Biden laptop from Wikipedia, Benavides regularly discussed the laptop with FBI officials in the leadup to the 2020 election.
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EXCLUSIVE: New whistleblower reporting via @ChuckGrassley reveals that personal payroll data for the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) was collected by Jack Smith’s team.
The financial data included CPI employees’ medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, along with a CPI bank statement.
BACK STORY: In fall 2025, Grassley revealed that CPI was one of 430 groups subpoenaed or targeted by Jack Smith as part of the Arctic Frost probe, which laid the foundation for the Jan. 6 investigation.
The new reporting shows that Smith’s collection of data and financial records was broader than previously reported.
While Smith had a mandate to investigate Jan. 6, the collection of CPI’s February 2023 payroll data appears to go beyond the scope.
Critics, including Grassley and @SenJudiciaryGOP say Smith’s sweeping data collection aimed to map the entire Republican network.
NOTE: Combining data sets from donors, voter registration, lawmakers’ phone records (not contents), and financial transactions is far more revealing and intrusive.
It can reveal a network as well as the frequency of the contact and strength of relationship.
Smith has defended the overall investigation as fact-driven and non-political.
🚨 Chairman @ChuckGrassley reveals SHOCKING new whistleblower discovery in explosive memo today: Jack Smith & Biden DOJ obtained personal data for over HALF A MILLION Republican donors, voters and supporters.
At least 639,000 Americans’ data was scooped up by Smith and his team.
"Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected incredibly invasive donor data – and voter data – beyond what could conceivably be necessary for Smith or his team to fulfill the Special Counsel’s mandate."
It is a fact, not a conspiracy, that Democrats are defending Jack Smith after his widespread abuses against their constituents. Please feel free to correct the record by condemning Jack Smith's unconstitutional actions, apologize to the constituents he harmed and join Republicans in seeking accountability.
🚨 BREAKING: Chairman @ChuckGrassley SLAMS Judiciary Committee Democrats for "falling over themselves" defending Jack Smith's unlawful and unconstitutional actions.
Grassley revealed Smith targeted nearly 5,000 Americans for the false crime of donating to Republicans. Instead of standing up for their constituents, Democrats want an apology for weaponizer-in-chief Jack Smith.
Republicans aren’t backing down, and they won’t apologize for fighting for accountability.
120 Illinoisans
114 New Jerseyans
504 Californians
83 Minnesotans
12 Rhode Islanders
23 Delawareans
39 Connecticuters
17 Hawaiians
2 Vermonters
0 outcry from Senate Judiciary Democrats.
🚨 Chairman @ChuckGrassley, @SenMikeLee and @SenatorCollins are calling on the Trump administration to protect American families from deadly kratom and semi-synthetic substances like 7-OH.
Federal scheduling would keep these addictive drugs off gas station shelves and out of the hands of our nation's children.
Chairman @ChuckGrassley: "This meeting occurred during Jack Smith’s time as Special Counsel & constitutes ‘consultation or counsel’ from John Brennan to Smith & his team. Smith’s response before the Senate Judiciary Committee was highly evasive & misleading, at minimum." foxnews.com/politics/ex-obam…
One year since Chairman @ChuckGrassley dropped a BOMBSHELL exposing Jack Smith's partisan witch hunt.
Transparency brings accountability.
🚨 Senators Surveilled 🚨
Bombshell records released by Chairman @ChuckGrassley and @SenRonJohnson expose the disturbing political weaponization of Biden’s @FBI.
It’s time for answers. It’s time for accountability.
As Chairman @ChuckGrassley often says: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." ☀️👇
In 2021, AG Garland issued a memo that directed the FBI to target concerned parents who spoke out during school board meetings.
Today, @TheJusticeDept released a report confirming the Biden DOJ and White House worked to chill parental and free speech rights, labeling innocent parents as "domestic terrorists."
Another example of runaway Democrat government.
Today, the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group issued a report detailing how Biden Administration officials at the Department of Justice explored avenues to prosecute parents and protestors who spoke to school boards and school officials during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Records show Biden White House and Justice Department leadership pushed for a memo which sought to find a federal “hook” to prosecute parents and charge protestors with federal crimes, despite widespread concerns from attorneys and agents.
This report follows letters sent earlier today by Department of Justice and @usedgov leadership to all 50 state attorneys general on parental rights.
Read more about the report here: justice.gov/opa/pr/weaponiza…
ALT Weaponization Working Group Releases Report on Garland Memo That Chilled Parental Rights and Warned Parents Could Be Domestic Terrorists
Arctic Frost and related weaponization by the Biden DOJ and FBI was arguably WORSE THAN WATERGATE. 🗣️
A collective 914 Americans in states represented by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee had their private checks subpoenaed by Jack Smith.
ZERO Democrats asked Smith about those subpoenas at today's hearing.
When the government goes after everyday Americans, Democrats do nothing.
That's not representative government. It's self-serving on the taxpayer dime.
.@SenTedCruz: "Did your team obtain donor and fundraising information?"
Jack SMITH: "I do not recall." 🤔🤥
Jack Smith subpoenaed personal checks from 4,782 Republican donors, and Chairman @ChuckGrassley has the evidence thanks to brave whistleblowers.