The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is defending Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan against Republican criticism. Complete Story...
A key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants federal regulators to force Comcast Corp. to sell NBC Universal's stake in the online video site Hulu and impose other conditions if they allow the cable company to take control of NBC.
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee warned Monday that he would seek to slow Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's path to confirmation unless senators get full access to her files as a Clinton administration aide.
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan criticized a campaign finance ruling in a case she argued for the Obama administration and considers abortion rights to be settled law, according to a GOP senator who met with her Thursday.
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he'll do his best to prepare for a midsummer vote on confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court justice.
The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee says Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan should get a Senate confirmation vote before August.
The Supreme Court would televise many of its public sessions and cameras would be permitted in lower federal courts, at a judge's discretion, if the Senate Judiciary Committee has its way.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee predicts that President Barack Obama will nominate his next Supreme Court justice in time for hearings to wrap up this summer.
A Senate committee chairman told the Justice Department on Friday to hunt for the missing e-mails of an attorney who provided legal justification for the Bush administration's harsh interrogation of terror suspects.
A bill to protect reporters' confidential sources in federal court cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, ending months of stalemate.
Legislation to make radio stations pay royalties to performers when they broadcast their music won the Senate Judiciary Committee's approval Thursday.
A divided Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a revised version of the nation's major counterterrorism law, after intelligence and law enforcement officials assured lawmakers that counterterrorism operations would not be harmed.
A divided Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a revised version of the nation's major counterterrorism law, after intelligence and law enforcement officials assured lawmakers that counterterrorism operations would not be harmed.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants new measures to clamp down on special exemptions that federal agencies are using to avoid disclosing information to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
A bill to give journalists a limited right to protect confidential sources from disclosure was sidetracked Thursday, after senators from both parties said the current version could damage national security.
McCain says he remains undecided on whether to vote to confirm Sotomayor for Supreme Court
The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
The Senate debate over Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor turned bitter Wednesday, after Democrats warned the GOP it would pay a steep price for opposing the judge who would be the first Hispanic justice, and a top Republican charged they were playing destructive racial politics.
The NRA stepped up its push Thursday against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, warning that backers risk losing ground with gun rights supporters, even as a powerful business lobby came out in support of President Barack Obama's first high court nominee.
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he remains troubled by some of Sonia Sotomayor's remarks and rulings.
Some quotes from witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court:
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has completed three days of answering questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says he'll set a vote in his panel next week on confirming Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor's rulings and writings on some issues in which she has refused to spell out her views during questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee:
A Republican senator is appealing to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to recognize the nature of the enemy as the country considers how to prosecute detainees from the war on terror.
As an Oxford University graduate student a quarter-century ago, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote, "No court should make or justify its decisions solely by reference to the demands of social justice," contending that rulings "should appeal no less to our intellectual than t …
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Goodwin Liu to be a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sending him to the full Senate for consideration after a party-line vote of 12 Democrats in favor to 7 Republicans opposed.
PITTSBURGH – The first time Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) slipped up here Tuesday night at the Allegheny County Democratic Committee's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, most in the audience pretended not to notice.
The Obama administration doesn't know yet where it's going to try Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday, adding that New York is "not off the table."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Orrin Hatch says he's heard Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's name mentioned in connection with the Supreme Court vacancy brought about by the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens.
Appeals court nominee Goodwin Liu claims that his failure to provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with more than 100 of his speeches and writings was inadvertent. In support of this claim, Liu's supporters claim the omissions were inconsequential.
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked for a delay in the confirmation hearing of a key judicial nominee.
As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of $71 billion a year for information technology got a big raspberry Friday for a 14-year-long failure to ensure that government e-mails are preserved.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting the candidate as a judicial loose cannon and after Republicans raised concerns about bias in favor of sex …
The Senate GOP is blocking the confirmation of even those Obama judicial nominations that Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee supported unanimously.
This morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, convened by Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), quickly came to a focus on the critical evidence that disappeared into the recesses of the Justice Department as the Office of Professional Responsibility conducted its probe of torture …
The Obama administration announced this week that it is nominating acting DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart to head the agency.
The U.S. intelligence chief said Wednesday that the Christmas Day airline bombing suspect should have been treated as a terror suspect when the plane landed.
From the Media Research Center
Republicans are using the filibuster to stall action even on bills that most of them support. Remember: The rule is to keep Democrats from ever reaching the exit.
In their quest to thwart President Obama, Republicans do not fear the hobgoblin of consistency. The article is two pages long. If you prefer to view it on one page with fewer graphics, click here.
President Barack Obama isn't skirting the U.S. Constitution or abusing his authority by appointing so-called "czars," or policy coordinators, to oversee certain issues or problems, a Senate panel was told Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved the nomination of federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to become the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, setting up a final confirmation vote by the Senate.
If by some chance you haven't heard yet, last night on the Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC pundit Pat Buchanan, who's been urging the GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor by blissing out to their inner sense of racial superiority, h …
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee, was set to return Wednesday to a cavernous Senate hearing room for another grueling day of questioning.
Sonia Sotomayor seemed Tuesday, July 14, to do a good job of explaining her 2001 " 'wise Latina' " remark to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The American Bar Association says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is well qualified to serve on the high court.
Finally joining the Senate, Democrat Al Franken is awaiting "an awfully emotional" Tuesday when he is sworn in.
About $53 billion of $479 billion has been disbursed by federal agencies.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the committee preparing for hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor needs time to review 300 boxes of records.