The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally known as the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 21 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the Department of Justice (DOJ), consider executive and judicial nominations, and review pending legislation.
Sonia Sotomayor testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination for the United States Supreme Court
Dick Durbin, Democratic senator from Illinois, is the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Amy Klobuchar
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Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota, a seat she has held since 2007. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the county attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota.
Female senators of the 110th Congress, Klobuchar standing, second from the right, January 2007
Klobuchar's father, Jim, and supporters campaigning for Klobuchar as U.S. senator, Tower, Minnesota, July 4, 2012
Klobuchar with Lindsey Graham and John McCain in Latvia in 2016