Kristi Noem tried to avoid wasting her job along with her testimony earlier than Congress in early March. It was Noem’s final gasp earlier than she was let go by Trump, who reassigned her to a brand new submit the place she is going to in all probability by no means be seen once more.
The issue was that Noem didn’t simply testify. She seems to have instructed a number of lies to Congress, and Democrats on the Home and Senate Judiciary Committees aren’t letting Noem’s lies slide for one massive cause.
The statute of limitations on the referral of Noem for prosecution is longer than Trump’s time left in workplace.
Home and Senate Judiciary Committee rating members Jamie Raskin and Dick Durbin wrote a letter to the DOJ referring Noem for prosecution for mendacity to Congress.
Durbin and Raskin wrote to AG Pam Bondi:
We write to refer proof displaying Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem repeatedly misled the Senate Committee on the Judiciary throughout her testimony on March 3, 2026, and the Home Committee on the Judiciary throughout her testimony on March 4, 2026.
Quite a few her statements seem to violate prison statutes prohibiting perjury and knowingly making false statements to Congress. Beneath 18 U.S.C. §1001, it’s a federal crime for any particular person to “knowingly and willfully … make[] any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent assertion or illustration … [w]ith respect to … any investigation or overview, performed pursuant to the authority of any committee, subcommittee, fee or workplace of the Congress, according to relevant guidelines of the Home or Senate.” Beneath 18 U.S.C. §1621, it’s likewise a federal crime for any particular person, “having taken an oath earlier than a reliable tribunal,” to “willfully subscribe[] as true any materials matter which he doesn’t consider to be true.”
The Democrats laid out how the previous DHS Secretary evaded testimony, after which detailed a sequence of lies that Noem is alleged to have stated beneath oath.
