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5 unusual facts about United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary


Acting Vice President of the United States

In 1964, presidential advisor Richard Neustadt, proposed the creation of a statutory office of Acting Vice President in hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Judiciary Committee

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, a standing committee of the United States Senate, of the United States Congress

Michele Leonhart

During Leonhart's testimony before the Judiciary Committee, she was questioned by a member of the Committee on Aging, Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), about her policy for nurses prescribing painkillers for patients in nursing homes.

Richard Maurice

In August 1951, after he left the union, Maurice testified before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi.

Stanley Allen Bastian

His nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.


Augustus Hill Garland

In the Senate, he served as a member of the Committees on Public Lands, the Territories and the Judiciary, serving as chairman of the Territories Committee in the 46th Congress.

Brett Tolman

Before becoming U.S. Attorney, Tolman worked as counsel in the Senate Judiciary Committee for committee chairs Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and then Arlen Specter (R-PA) during the 109th United States Congress.

David Harmer

In 1988-89, Harmer worked as counsel to a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; he was appointed by Senator Orrin Hatch.

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Afterwards, she supported preventing Arlen Specter from replacing Orrin Hatch as head of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the period between the 2004 elections and the beginning of the new Senate term in January 2005.

Michael P. Shea

He received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 28, 2012 and his nomination was reported to the floor on April 26, 2012, by a vote of 15 ayes to 3 nays, with Senators Lee, Coburn and Cornyn casting the no votes.

Nancy D. Freudenthal

According to the questionnaire that Freudenthal submitted to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, after the election of Barack Obama, Freudenthal's husband, Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, asked her if she would be interested in serving as a federal district judge for Wyoming.

Richard Mark Gergel

In his questionnaire to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Gergel wrote that South Carolina Democratic Congressmen John M. Spratt, Jr. and Jim Clyburn both previously had recommended Gergel to Obama as a district court nominee, and that South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham also supported the nomination.


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