Jerrold Nadler

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Jerrold Nadler

Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Nadler (born June 13, 1947 in New York City ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . Since 1992 he has represented part of Manhattan and Brooklyn for the state of New York in the House of Representatives of the United States .

Family, education and work

Jerrold Nadler was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York to Emanuel and Miriam Nadler. The family moved several times; his father, a supporter of the Democrats, tried his hand at poultry farmer in New Jersey , as a gas station leaseholder on Long Island and in mobile sales of spare parts for cars. The family eventually returned to Brooklyn. Nadler was raised in a Jewish Orthodox manner and attended the yeshiva in Crown Heights . He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan and studied at Columbia University in Upper Manhattan . There he took part in protests against the Vietnam War and therefore campaigned against the nomination of incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson and for Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential election . Nadler was elected spokesman for the students and advised by Dick Morris . He co-founded the activist group West Side Kids , which campaigned for better local housing and educational opportunities. In 1969 he received a bachelor's degree in government . From 1970 Nadler worked in the legal department of various companies, including the Corporation Trust Company , which is part of Wolters Kluwer . In 1972 he was an administrative assistant for the New York State Assembly and worked for a sports betting company from 1972 to 1976. In addition to his work, he studied part-time at the Law School of Fordham University , where he received the Juris Doctor in 1978 .

Nadler is Jewish . He lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his wife, Joyce L. Miller . You have a son.

Political career

From 1969 Nadler held various positions in the local Democratic Party organization. In 1976 he was elected to the New York State Assembly and from 1977 represented the 64th constituency, which includes the Upper West Side, until the election to the US House of Representatives. In 1985 he applied as chairman of the Borough Manhattan, in 1989 as an auditor for the city of New York, but was defeated in the Democratic primary . A local newspaper called him “the godfather” because his extensive personal network extends to many key positions in the city administration.

Congressman

After the death of the previous representative of the 17th New York congressional electoral district , Theodore S. Weiss , Nadler applied for his successor in 1992. At the special party conference of the Democrats in September 1992, Nadler was elected as his party's candidate with almost 62 percent of the vote - including against Bella Abzug . On November 3, 1992, Nadler was elected both in the by-election for the remaining months of Weiss' mandate in the 102nd Congress and in the simultaneous regular election in 1992 for the 103rd Congress . In this election, Nadler stood for the eighth congressional electoral district, which had been changed by restructuring ("redistricting") and which largely corresponded to the previous one geographically. Nadler also won all subsequent elections, most recently in the 2016 election , always with over 70 and often over 80 percent of the vote. After further restructuring, he has been representing New York's 10th congressional electoral district since 2013. Geographically, the differently numbered constituencies are almost identical in western Manhattan with the New York Stock Exchange and the site of the World Trade Center , which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . Nadler successfully campaigned for federal aid to rebuild southern Manhattan and to ensure adequate medical care for first aiders. The borough also includes parts of Brooklyn , including a community of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Borough Park .

In the House of Representatives, he is or was a member of the Justice and Infrastructure Committees . He is the founder of the Israel Working Group and the LGBT Equality Caucus in Congress. Nadler received nationwide attention in 1998 during the impeachment proceedings against the then Democratic President Bill Clinton in the wake of the Lewinsky affair . Nadler, up until then a backbencher on the Judiciary Committee, was one of Clinton's most vehement defenders against the Republican majority, who pushed the process, and compared their actions to a partisan coup, since the will of American citizens manifested in elections is being taken.

In September 2018, Nadler stated that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh , who has been charged with several sexual assault allegations during his ongoing Senate hearing, will face a House investigation if the Senate confirms the allegations and fails to properly investigate them.

Relationship with President Trump

Like many other New Yorkers, Nadler knew Donald Trump long before he entered politics, but never had a good relationship with the real estate entrepreneur. Nadler campaigned against several planned high-rise apartment buildings in the West Side of Manhattan in the 1980s and 1990s and was one of three politicians who attacked Trump in his book The America We Deserve , published in 2000 . Nadler has described Trump as "ruthless, dangerous and lawless".

Nadler with Nydia Velázquez at the protest against the entry ban for residents of Muslim majority countries ( Executive Order 13769 ) at John F. Kennedy International Airport in January 2017

During Donald Trump's presidency, Nadler is seen as one of the Democrats' spokesmen in an attempt to take legal action against the president 's continuing private interests, which are considered questionable . In 2017, he asked the United States Department of Justice to provide information on possible conflicts of interest and contacts with the Russian government (see allegations of Trump collusion with Russia ). In the same year, he and other Democratic congressmen took the lead against Trump for violating the so-called Foreign Emoluments Clause of the constitution ( Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 8 ), which prohibits the President from accepting remuneration from abroad and from international customers of Trump's Hotels could be hurt.

As a ranking member of the Justice Committee from December 2017 to December 2018, Nadler was also the highest-ranking Democrat in this body, which would be in charge of the eventual impeachment of Trump. After the Democrats' victory in the 2018 election , Nadler became chairman of the judiciary committee in January 2019. He would be piloting a hypothetical impeachment process . Nadler is considered cautious and legalistic on this question and wants to wait for the report by special investigator Robert Mueller to see whether such a polarizing measure can be justified by the results of the investigation. In December 2017, for example, he voted against the initiative of the Texan MP Al Green to initiate such a procedure. For example, from a statement made by James Madison when he ratified the United States Constitution in Virginia in 1788, Nadler concludes that Trump would have to be removed from office if he had been guilty of the conspiracy against the United States (18 US Code 371 ) and then co-conspirators would pardon. Nadler described the dismissal of James Comey as a "very strong" argument that Trump was obstructing the judiciary , and compared Trump's refusal to pursue Russian citizens accused of influencing the election campaign more intensively with a hypothetical inaction in the attack on Pearl Harbor .

Positions

Nadler is considered to be one of the leftist congressmen of his party ( "liberal" ), who campaigned for the rights of women and homosexuals as early as 1992 and fought for a shift in traffic from the road to the rail. He criticized the Clinton administration from a leftist perspective for restricting social welfare , enforcing the NAFTA free trade agreement and restricting civil rights. He frequently rejected non-partisan laws such as the USA PATRIOT Act 2001 to restrict civil rights in counter-terrorism.

Nadler's constituency has one of the highest Jewish populations in the United States, and he is considered downright pro-Israel. He enforced a tax exemption for compensation payments for Holocaust survivors , improved relations between Jews and African Americans, and worked on legislation against hate crime . The constituency also includes the largest LGBT community in the United States. Nadler rejected the military guideline Don't ask, don't tell passed under President Clinton as “bigot” (intolerant). His support for President Obama's negotiated solution to the dispute over the Iranian nuclear program in 2015 is said to have had a decisive influence on the fact that many Democrats agreed to it despite concerns, while New York's Jewish Senator Charles Schumer , for example, rejected the program. As a result, before the 2016 election , Nadler received a serious inner-party challenger in the primary for the first time in years.

Web links

Commons : Jerrold Nadler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the death note on Miriam Nadler. In: The New York Times , December 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Todd S. Purdum: Persistence Pays Off: Jerrold Lewis Nadler. In: The New York Times , September 25, 1992; James Dao: Finding Stardom in a Supporting Role; Nadler's Defense of Clinton Lifts His Profile in the House and at Home. In: The New York Times , February 1, 1999.
  3. ↑ Lisa DeShantz Cook: Nadler, Jerrold Lewis. In: Encyclopedia.com , 2007.
  4. ↑ Jerry Nadler's Biography. In: Vote Smart
  5. ↑ Jerry Nadler's Biography. In: Vote Smart ; Nadler, Jerrold L. In: Our Campaigns.
  6. ↑ Russell Berman: The Democrat Who Could Lead Trump's Impeachment Isn't Sure It's Warranted. In: The Atlantic , September 10, 2018.
  7. ^ NY District 8 - D Special Convention 1992. In: Our Campaigns.
  8. ^ Ben Sales: In New York race, a gay religious Jewish upstart challenges a 12-term incumbent. In: Times of Israel , June 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ Jerry Nadler's Biography. In: Vote Smart.
  10. ↑ James Dao: Finding Stardom in a Supporting Role; Nadler's Defense of Clinton Lifts His Profile in the House and at Home. In: The New York Times , February 1, 1999; Susan B. Glasser: The New York Congressman Who Could Lead an Impeachment Charge Against Trump. In: The New Yorker , February 26, 2018.
  11. ↑ Kris Schneider: If Kavanaugh confirmed, 'House will have to' investigate if Senate doesn't: Democratic rep. In: ABC News , September 30, 2018.
  12. ↑ Tim Rahmann, Gregor Peter Schmitz : These are Trump's most powerful opponents. In: Wirtschaftswoche , February 28, 2017 (page 2).
  13. ↑ Tom Hamburger, Karen Tumulty: Congressional Democrats to file emoluments lawsuit against Trump. In: The Washington Post , June 14, 2017.
  14. ^ Susan B. Glasser: The New York Congressman Who Could Lead an Impeachment Charge Against Trump. In: The New Yorker , February 26, 2018; Russell Berman: The Democrat Who Could Lead Trump's Impeachment Isn't Sure It's Warranted. In: The Atlantic , September 10, 2018.
  15. ↑ Todd S. Purdum: Persistence Pays Off: Jerrold Lewis Nadler. In: The New York Times , September 25, 1992.
  16. ↑ James Dao: Finding Stardom in a Supporting Role; Nadler's Defense of Clinton Lifts His Profile in the House and at Home. In: The New York Times , February 1, 1999.
  17. ↑ Lisa DeShantz Cook: Nadler, Jerrold Lewis. In: Encyclopedia.com , 2007.
  18. ^ Ben Sales: In New York race, a gay religious Jewish upstart challenges a 12-term incumbent. In: Times of Israel , June 28, 2016; Russell Berman: The Democrat Who Could Lead Trump's Impeachment Isn't Sure It's Warranted. In: The Atlantic , September 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Nadler, Jerrold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nadler, Jerrold Lewis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City