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Jim Jordan’s FISA Flip-Flop & K Street’s Conundrum

Why the House Judiciary chair suddenly found religion on surveillance, and how lobbyists lost on reconciliation.

Jim Jordan
What to make of his flip-flop? Republican members and aides tell Leigh Ann it has more to do with Jordan’s political ambitions than anything else. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images
Leigh Ann Caldwell
April 14, 2026

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The House is set to vote this week on extending Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a controversial provision whereby Americans can get swept up in surveillance of foreign nationals. The extension faces the usual resistance from the coalition of liberals and conservatives worried about the privacy implications. But one of 702’s traditional opponents, Rep. Jim Jordan, recently, suddenly, changed his position. Jordan, the chair of the Judiciary Committee, led the fight against FISA in 2024 (and also years before that) alongside his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Jerry Nadler, even hosting a hearing this past December detailing FISA abuses. Now he supports an 18-month extension of Section 702.