[Brown Deer]

Born in Brooklyn, New York on June 13, 1947, Jerrold Lewis Nadler attended Stuyvesant H.S. in New York, and then went on to earn a BA in Government from Columbia University in 1969 and a JD from Fordham University Law School in 1978. At Columbia he founded a student group known as the “West End Kids”—referring to the West Side of Manhattan—which sought to reform New York City Democratic politics by supporting liberal and anti-Vietnam War candidates. True to his group’s mission, Nadler in 1968 worked for the presidential campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy, who ran on an antiwar platform.

Throughout his years in politics, Nadler has maintained close ties to socialist organizations. In 1977, for instance, he was a member of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), and by 1983 he had joined the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Nadler remains a DSA member to this day.

In 1998 and 1999, Nadler used his influence as a Judiciary Committee member to oppose the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton. Not long thereafter, Nadler became personally involved in an effort to gain clemency for Susan Rosenberg, a former Weather Underground terrorist who was serving a 58-year prison term for her role in the deadly Brink’s armored-car robbery of 1981.

On January 3, 2019 Nadler became Chair of the House Judiciary Committee.

https://nypost.com/2001/01/23/nadler-behind-lethal-heist-pardon/

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/25/opinion/pardons-on-the-sly.html

https://newsrealblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/terrorist-sponsor-jerrold-nadler-hangs-u-s-troops-out-to-dry/

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“Nadler became personally involved in an effort to gain clemency for Susan Rosenberg, a former Weather Underground terrorist who was serving a 58-year prison term for her role in the deadly Brink’s armored-car robbery of 1981. On January 3, 2019 Nadler became Chair of the House Judiciary Committee.”

Thanks for that! Very interesting.

I’ve lived in NYC all but one of my nearly 62 years.

Think I’ll look into that commie SOB’s past more deeply and see what else there is on him.

[LucyT]

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1981 Brinks heist getaway driver Judith Clark released on parole

Check out article, comments, photos. A lot of information in this thread.

Thanks, Brown Deer.

(Who was in the getaway car?)

[mumblypeg]

Good grief! I did nor know that!

Here we were under the impression AOC was the first “Democratic Socialist” in congress.

Now a whole lot of stuff is beginning to make sense.

Thanks for posting.

[Brown Deer]

https://metrovoicenews.com/jerrold-nadler-another-socialist-in-congress/