Sen. Whitehouse Lambasts Supreme Court Presidential Immunity Decision in Judiciary Hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXwCdWcxslo

Sen. Whitehouse on Voting Rights, False Facts, and SCOTUS's Disastrous Shelby County Decision

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) remarks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “The Right Side of History: Protecting Voting Rights in America.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlfngxAeQyY

The Scheme 26: The Judiciary Committee Votes for Subpoenas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07Qjcp9l9Q

Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo may face subpoenas from Senate Judiciary Committee - The Washington Post

"By accepting these lavish, undisclosed gifts, the justices have enabled their wealthy benefactors and other individuals with business before the Court to gain private access to the justices while preventing public scrutiny of this conduct," Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in the joint announcement. "It is imperative that we understand the full extent of how people with interests before the Court are able to use undisclosed gifts to gain private access to the justices."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/30/harlan-crow-leonard-leo-subpoena-supreme-court/

Durbin Reflects on Senate Judiciary Hearing on the Devastating Fallout Since SCOTUS Overruled Roe

In Oklahoma there is a 100% ban, no exceptions. Because of this law, all IVF programs had to close. Doctors treating infertility must have the ability to perform abortions on their high risk patients. Oklahoma has lost a lot of good doctors because of these new laws. The laws were draughted and passed by the Republican state governor and officials. Not a single Oklahoman had a say in it.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/lpFSt2T3_tM

Democrats condemn Roberts’ refusal to testify over US supreme court ethics row | US supreme court | The Guardian

Democrats and progressives reacted angrily after John Roberts, the chief justice of the supreme court, declined an invitation to testify before the Senate judiciary committee about corruption allegations against members of his court.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/apr/26/democrats-condemn-roberts-refusal-testify-supreme-court-ethics

Senate Judiciary mulls action amid fallout from Durham probe | The Hill

"These reports about abuses in Special Counsel Durham's investigation — so outrageous that even his longtime colleagues quit in protest — are but one of many instances where former President Trump and his allies weaponized the Justice Department," committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a statement...

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3836162-senate-judiciary-mulls-action-amid-fallout-from-durham-probe/

The problem(s) with Jordan’s report on DOJ, FBI ‘politicization’

Obviously, the public is supposed to see the number of pages as evidence of merit. "Well, Judiciary Committee Republicans must've found a ton of incriminating information," Americans are apparently expected to say. "After all, just look at all of those pages!" 

There is, however, a small problem. As Talking Points Memo explained, "All but about 50 pages of the 1,050-page report are old letters Republicans already sent to the Biden administration. In one instance, they attached a five-page letter they'd previously sent to all U.S. attorneys 93 times."… 

"The other 50 pages are a who's who of Fox News-flavored grievances and conspiracy theories, dinging the FBI for everything from the "unprecedented raid" of Mar-a-Lago to going easy on Hunter Biden to supposedly targeting parents for resisting "a far-left educational curriculum" to inflating domestic violent extremism stats. Many of their gripes and allegations are old — that Hillary Clinton was given "kid-glove treatment" in comparison to Donald Trump — and animated by perpetual, ongoing right-wing complaints, including that "big tech" is censoring conservative viewpoints."

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/problems-jordans-report-doj-fbi-politicization-rcna55693

Opinion | Sally Yates blows up Republican conspiracies and falsehoods - The Washington Post

Former deputy attorney general Sally Yates provided as definitive an account as you are going to get regarding former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the Russia investigation and the politicization of the Justice Department during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Republicans have been so immersed in a false account of events and in conspiracy-mongering for a failed president that they seemed startled when Yates corrected them again and again. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/06/truth-telling-sally-yates-testifies-about-flynn-russia-barr/

Sen. John Cornyn’s distorted interpretation of ‘systemic racism’ displayed what a lot of Americans don’t get about it. - The Washington Post

A witness at Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary hearing on policing reform offered a lesson on what it means ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/17/sen-john-cornyns-distorted-interpretation-systemic-racism-displayed-what-lot-americans-dont-get-about-it/

As crises multiply, Trump’s Senate allies respond: But her emails! - The Washington Post

American justice is in crisis: Civil rights demonstrators fill the streets, most Americans say law enforcement is discriminatory, and, in front of the White House, the attorney general orders federal police to trample the constitutional rights of peaceful demonstrators. This would be a good time for the august members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to protect the Constitution they swore to uphold. Instead, committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) convened his panel this week to launch yet another investigation into the Obama administration. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/12/crises-multiply-trumps-senate-allies-respond-her-emails/

Democratic Senators Demand Answers on Trump’s Secretive Border Expulsions — ProPublica

After ProPublica’s report, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee ask the Department of Homeland Security to explain why it thinks emergency powers granted to the CDC allow it to bypass existing asylum laws.
https://www.propublica.org/article/democratic-senators-demand-answers-on-trumps-secretive-border-expulsions

Watchdog: Steele dossier 'had no impact' on opening of 2016 probe | TheHill

Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz said during a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the dossier prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele did not prompt the original DOJ investigation into members of the Trump campaign.....

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/474113-watchdog-steele-dossier-had-no-impact-on-opening-of-2016-probe

URGENT: Tell your senators to oppose anti-choice judicial nominee Sarah Pitlyk

A divided Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced a patently unqualified, ideologically extreme Trump nominee for the federal bench to the full Senate for a vote. The Senate will vote on Pitlyk TODAY, Wednesday, Dec. 4, and your legislators need to hear your voice in opposition to her confirmation.
https://p2a.co/ZNnKoF3

Senate Dems: Barr must recuse himself from Ukraine, Russia probe investigation | TheHill

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are calling on Attorney General William Barr to step back from Ukraine-related matters and an investigation into the origins of the probe on Russian election meddling and the Trump campaign. .....
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/467530-senate-dems-barr-must-recuse-himself-from-ukraine-russia-probe-investigation

FBI director: 'White supremacist violence' is motivation for most 2019 U.S. domestic terrorism - Daily Kos

In wide-ranging testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, FBI Director Chris Wray told the assembled senators that the FBI has made roughly 100 domestic terrorism arrests this year. The "majority" of those arrested were "motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence." ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/23/1873829/-FBI-Director-White-supremacist-violence-is-motivation-for-majority-of-2019-US-domestic-terrorism

Graham angers Dems by digging into Clinton, Obama controversies - The Hill

New tensions are flaring on the Senate Judiciary Committee over plans by newly minted Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to dig into Obama-era scandals. ....
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426249-graham-angers-dems-by-digging-into-clinton-obama-controversies

Trump golfing buddy Lindsey Graham set to take over Senate Judiciary Committee - Daily Kos

After completing his whirlwind transition from John McCain bestie to Donald Trump acolyte, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is set to assume one of the most important positions related to Trump's survival: Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1813374

Flake Pledges To Block Committee Votes On Judges — Until Mueller Bill On Senate Floor - NPR:

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., holds the deciding vote on a narrowly divided Senate Judiciary Committee. There are currently 21 judicial nominees awaiting a vote by the committee. ....
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/14/667980410/flake-pledges-to-block-committee-votes-on-judges-until-mueller-bill-on-senate-fl

Republicans aren't just ignoring Kavanaugh's massive perjury problem, they're enabling it - Daily Kos

Monday afternoon, progressive activist group Demand Justice unveiled their compilation of the 29 instances of perjury by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in his two separate hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Within a few hours, that list was expanded to 31, when we found out that Kavanaugh lied twice about Deborah Ramirez's accusations that he exposed himself to her in college. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1800785