Tag: Senate Judiciary Committee

Senate panel to release interviews with Trump Jr., others involved in meeting with Russian lawyer

The following article by Karoun Demirjian was posted on the Washington Post website January 25, 2018:

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said on Jan. 25 that he’ll release transcripts of interviews related to Donald Trump Jr.’s Trump Tower meeting with Russians. (Jordan Frasier/The Washington Post)

The Senate Judiciary Committee intends to release transcripts of its interviews with President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., and others who participated in a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer allegedly promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said Thursday that the committee would disclose “all witness interviews that we have done related to that meeting,” making them available to the public “for everyone to see.” The committee’s interviews, which were conducted behind closed doors, are complete, he added. Continue reading “Senate panel to release interviews with Trump Jr., others involved in meeting with Russian lawyer”

Booker, Harris Add Historic Diversity to Senate Judiciary

The following article by Todd Ruger was posted on the Roll Call website January 10, 2018:

2020 hopefuls are second and third black senators to serve on panel

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is the first black man to sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

The addition of Democrats Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday gave the two potential 2020 presidential hopefuls a big platform, but also a spot in the panel’s history.

Booker becomes the first black man to sit on the committee, which oversees civil rights, voting rights, housing discrimination and other Justice Department enforcement efforts that are seen as crucial to African-Americans. Harris, who is biracial, becomes the second black woman to serve on the panel, after Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, who left the Senate in 1999.

In one move by Democrats, Booker and Harris become the second and third black senators to serve on the committee and its first black members in nearly two decades. It will be the first time two black senators have been on the panel at the same time, and it comes as minority communities express concern at moves by President Donald Trump and his administration, specifically those by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Continue reading “Booker, Harris Add Historic Diversity to Senate Judiciary”

Atty. Gen. Sessions should ‘explain himself’ to Senate Judiciary Committee, Franken says

The following article by Laura King was posted on the Los Angeles Times website March 5, 2017:

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Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions should reappear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said Sunday.

It was a question by Franken during Sessions’ confirmation hearing that elicited the then-nominee’s assertion that he had not met with any Russians during the presidential campaign, to which Sessions served as an advisor. Continue reading “Atty. Gen. Sessions should ‘explain himself’ to Senate Judiciary Committee, Franken says”