United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

The **United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary**, also called the **Senate Judiciary Committee**, is a standing committee of 22 U.S. Senators whose job is to oversee the Department of Justice (DOJ), question people who have been chosen for executive and judicial jobs, and review legislation.

It is also in charge of having meetings and investigating people the President chooses to be judges on the Supreme Court, the U.S. court of appeals, the U.S. district courts, and the Court of International Trade.

## Members, 116th Congress

|Majority|Minority|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|valign=top|* Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, _Chairman_ * Chuck Grassley, Iowa * John Cornyn, Texas * Mike Lee, Utah * Ted Cruz, Texas * Ben Sasse, Nebraska * Josh Hawley, Missouri * Thom Tillis, North Carolina * Joni Ernst, Iowa * Mike Crapo, Idaho * John Kennedy, Louisiana * Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee|valign=top|* Dianne Feinstein, California, _Ranking Member_ * Patrick Leahy, Vermont * Dick Durbin, Illinois * Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island * Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota * Chris Coons, Delaware * Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut * Mazie Hirono, Hawaii * Cory Booker, New Jersey * Kamala Harris, California|

## Related pages

- United States House Committee on the Judiciary
- List of current United States Senate committees

## Other websites

- United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Official Website (Archive)
- Senate Judiciary Committee. Legislation activity and reports, Congress.gov.

## Infobox (u.s. congressional committee)

- **name**: Senate Judiciary Committee
- **type**: standing
- **chamber**: senate
- **congress**: 116th
- **status**: active
- **formed**: December 10, 1816
- **chair**: Lindsey Graham
- **chair party**: R
- **chair since**: January 3, 2019
- **ranking member**: Dianne Feinstein
- **rm party**: D
- **rm since**: January 3, 2017
- **seats**: 22 members
- **majority1**: R
- **majority1 seats**: 12
- **minority1**: D
- **minority1 seats**: 10
- **policy areas**: Federal judiciary of the United States, Federal judiciary, Civil procedure in the United States, civil procedure, United States criminal procedure, criminal procedure, Civil liberties in the United States, civil liberties, Copyright law of the United States, copyrights, United States patent law, patents, United States trademark law, trademarks, United States nationality law, naturalization, Article Five of the United States Constitution, constitutional amendments, United States congressional apportionment, congressional apportionment, Political divisions of the United States, state and territorial boundary lines
- **oversight**: United States Department of Justice, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, United States federal judge, federal judicial nominations
- **counterpart**: United States House Committee on the Judiciary, House Committee on the Judiciary
- **meeting place**: Dirksen Senate Office Building, 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
- **meeting image**: File:Dirksen226.jpg
- **meeting img size**: 265
- **chamber rules**: [https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-113sdoc18/pdf/CDOC-113sdoc18.pdf#page=31 Rule XXV.1.(m), Standing Rules of the Senate]
- **committee rules**: [https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/rules Rules of Procedure U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]