My Judiciary colleagues Jerrold Nadler, and Robert C. Scott joined me in penning this piece.

In 1928, the Supreme Court heard its first challenge to a secret government wiretap.  The court upheld the warrantless surveillance in that case, but Justice Brandeis dissented.   While the wiretap evidence was important to a...

In Wayne County, Michigan, 195 homes go into foreclosure each day. According to the Congressional Oversight Panel, nationally, 1.8 million homes were lost to foreclosure from July 2007 through August 2009. And yet, in spite of these haunting numbers, as the New York Times blogged last week, bank executives...

In today's Washington Post, David Broder argues that the Attorney General should not have authorized special US Attorney John Durham to investigate the Bush interrogation program. While Mr. Broder apparently believes that public officials should generally be held to account for violations of law or breaches of the public...

In today's Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove says that I -- and others -- owe him an apology for allegations that have been made about him during the course of the House Judiciary Committee's investigation into the dismissal of United States Attorneys and related issues about the politicization of...

Today witnessed the landmark passage of the States Single Payer Amendment which would remove federal barriers to implementation of a single payer health care system at the state level. This bipartisan vote signifies the prominence of the single payer solution as the plan favored by a majority of Americans.

The...

Congress is not perfect, and I respect Professor Larry Lessig's vigorous effort to change and improve it. Furthermore, as readers of the Huffington Post well know, I am firmly committed to tough oversight and great transparency in government, and I don't mind taking it as well as dishing it...

So much has been written about the bank rescue announcement by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, and a clear verdict in the court of conventional wisdom has set in - the details were missing and the plan was far too scant to soothe the markets.

The strength or weakness of the...

The Obama era began in earnest last week, with bold action such as closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and promising to end torture. In its very first days, the new administration has begun to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding executive branch operations, and has made...

Today was the deadline for a Judiciary Committee subpoena issued to Karl Rove, demanding his appearance before the Committee to testify on his role in the politicization of the Department of Justice and the politically selective prosecutions of Democrats. Unfortunately, Mr. Rove chose not to show up.

The claim that...

This week, General David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testified before the House and Senate about the Iraq war. As we might have guessed, their testimony has amounted to simply announcing the administration's plans to continue on its current path -- to maintain at least 140,000 troops in...

Yesterday, while I was sitting on a panel at the 2nd Annual Take Back America Conference, I missed something spectacular. I was told that I missed the most refreshing dose of truth in politics in decades. I was told that I missed Senator Barack Obama make the presidency more than...

In recent weeks, there has been lot of conflicting information floating around about efforts by House Democrats to protect the country by adopting rules for intelligence gathering that are both flexible and constitutional. This week, President Bush suggested that my legislative alternative to this summer's hastily-enacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...

I appeared today at the peace rally in Washington and want to report to you that there is tremendous energy out there. Celebrities joined many activists and Members of Congress to call for an end to the fighting now. There was a very big crowd on the mall and most...

Facing opposition from the American public, the U.S. Congress and military leaders, the President plans to address the nation tonight desperately seeking to connect with the 26 percent of the American public who can still stomach his unbending desire to plummet our country deeper into war lacking both a strategy...

Psychologists use the term projection to describe a defense mechanism used by those who have unwanted or undesirable impulses or motivations. Lacking an effective way of dealing with those impulses or motivations, the individual projects them onto others. In essence, a person claims that other people are driven by the...

As you probably have heard, yesterday was a landmark in the effort to protect our civil liberties from the Administration's ever increasing power. A federal judge in Detroit ruled that the warrantless eavesdropping conducting by the NSA was unconstitutional, a conclusion shared by the vast majority of legal scholars outside...

It is the day after a hotly contested primary in Connecticut. I did not endorse either candidate in that primary. As a general matter and with few exceptions, I don't get involved in primaries because I view them as a means for the Democrats in that state to determine their...

Final "Constitution in Crisis" Report
Six Years of Unchecked Abuses -- Had Enough?

Cross Posted at Daily Kos

Today, I am releasing the final version of my report, the "Constitution in Crisis." The report, which is some 350 pages in length and is supported by more...

As the Republican party attempts to cater to its base by pushing its so-called "Values Agenda" - including bills that cover abortion, cloning, religious freedom - it is once again ginning up the crusade to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. But in the process, Republicans are leading an...

The latest Seymour Hersh story in the New Yorker is one more reason to support the Harman/Conyers "LISTEN" Act, H.R. 5371, our bill to bring the Bush Administration's NSA surveillance back under the rule of law.

Sy adds several important pieces to the expanding domestic database scandal. First,...