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January 16, 2026

Ranking Member of Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Argues: Courts Are Place to Resolve Disputes Not Granting Blanket Immunity to Big-Money Donors of Donald Trump

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, 


January 7, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Johnson released the following statement: 

"The video shows an armed, masked agent violating law enforcement policy by improperly using deadly force in repeatedly firing his gun into a moving vehicle. The result: a woman executed for at most violating a traffic ordinance. This is the unlawful killing of a human being, and like Derek Chauvin this officer should be arrested and charged with murder."

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January 6, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C.  Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet, delivered the following remarks at House Democrats’ hearing marking five years since the January 6 attack on the Capitol, featuring testimony from former law enforcement, state officials, Members who were present at th


December 4, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) and Congresswoman Kim Schrier MD (WA-08) sent a letter to Centers for Diseases Control & Prevention (CDC) Acting Director James O'Neill and the advisory panel it oversees urging them to maintain the existing recommendations in support of the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The advisory panel is scheduled to discuss and vote on the hepatitis B birth dose recommendation during its two-day meeting starting Dec.


November 19, 2025

 

Congressmen Johnson, Raskin reintroduce Bivens Act That Would Allow Citizens to Recover Damages for Constitutional Violations by Federal Officials

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) Introduces Senate Companion

Johnson, Whitehouse reintroduce Constitutional Accountability Act To Hold Police Accountable


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Kathy Register, right, speaks with Congressman Johnson’s Outreach Director Eric Hubbard at a recent town hall meeting in May 2025 in Georgia’s Fourth District.

October 31, 2025

Picture above: Kathy Register, right, speaks with Congressman Johnson’s Outreach Director Eric Hubbard at a recent town hall meeting in May 2025 in Georgia’s Fourth District.

DECATUR, GA – This week, Congressman Johnson sadly announced the sudden, unexpected but peaceful passing away of Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson’s lifelong best friend and his own close friend and District Director Kathy (Gayle) Holt Register.


October 8, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) and the entire Georgia Democratic delegation sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) urging him to call the U.S. House back to Washington immediately to engage in good-faith bipartisan efforts to address the healthcare crisis Republican created. Below and here is a copy of the letter.


September 16, 2025

'My hope is waning. Time is running out for hope, for justice, and for democracy itself'

 


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September 16, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C.   On Monday, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), ranking member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet, and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), announced that they re-introduced the FAIR Act: The Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act, re-establishing Americans’ 7th Amendment right to seek justice and accountability through the court system.