This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.

Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, leader of the moderate Republicans and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was anxious to reach a compromise with the President.

On November 21, 1867, the House Judiciary Committee produced a bill of impeachment: it had a broad collection of complaints against him, but as stated, these were not thought to be easily provable under the Constitution, which required evidence " as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Four female witnesses waited in the wings to reportedly support Hill's credibility, but they were not called, due to what the Los Angeles Times described as private, compromise deal between " aggressive, gloves-off " Republicans and the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Democrat Joe Biden.

The manner in which the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee challenged and dismissed Hill's accusations of sexual harassment angered women politicians and lawyers.

While the House Judiciary Committee hearings ended in a straight party-line vote, there was lively debate on the House floor.

Clinton also experienced a number of judicial appointment controversies, as 69 nominees to federal judgeships were not processed by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee.

In June 2006, prompted by a letter from Gary J. Aguirre, the Senate Judiciary Committee began an investigation into the links between hedge funds and independent analysts.

* 1974 – Watergate scandal: the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment ( for obstruction of justice ) against President Richard Nixon.

The House Judiciary Committee then demanded that Silberman testify about them.

She was named staff director of the Judiciary Committee of the Florida House of Representatives in 1971.

Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter asking for a formal investigation of the time between the start of Rove's investigation and John Ashcroft's recusal.

* Transcript of James Comey ’ s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 15, 2007

His housemates included Robert T. Hunter ( from Virginia, chairman of the Finance Committee ), James Mason ( from Virginia, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee ) and Andrew P. Butler ( from South Carolina, chairman of the Judiciary Committee ).

* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he brought forward a number of measures for the improvement of judicial procedure and, in May 1826, joined with Senator Thomas Hart Benton in reporting on executive patronage.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U. S. President Bill Clinton.

The concept of super-stare decisis ( or " super-precedent ") was mentioned during the interrogations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Committee on the Judiciary.

* 1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O ' Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Until 2005, the Lord Chancellor fused the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, as he was the ex officio Speaker of the House of Lords, a Government Minister who sat in Cabinet and was head of the Lord Chancellor's Department which administered the courts, the justice system and appointed judges, and was the head of the Judiciary in England and Wales and sat as a judge on the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, the highest domestic court in the entire United Kingdom, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the senior tribunal court for parts of the Commonwealth.

Thurmond served as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court in 1991 and worked closely with Joe Biden, then the chairman.

* 1803-Marbury v. Madison ( 5 US 137 1803 ) allows Supreme Court to invalidate law passed by the United States Congress for first time: the Judiciary Act of 1789

Others holding this view include Dr. Norman Matloff, who testified to the US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration on the H-1B subject.

The US had tried but failed to obstruct the prosecutions by Italy's independent Judiciary.

Similarly, in the US, the Judiciary Act of 1789, which was famously ruled unconstitutional in part by Marbury v. Madison, was called " An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States ".

Judiciary Committee Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, US Senate.

Conyers Letter to FBI, US House Judiciary

Conyers, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said an independent counsel is necessary to investigate allegations that White House officials may have been involved in the scheme, pointing out that the US Department of Justice " appears not to be reviewing the extensive contacts between the plotters of the phone jamming and high-level Republican officials.

Genosha Bay Prison caught the notice of the public and culminating in a Senate Judiciary Meeting on consider closing the prison.

This institution is the governing body of the Judiciary, integrated by the president of the Supreme court, twenty members appointed by the King for a five-year term, among whom there are twelve judges and magistrates of all judicial categories, four members nominated by the Congress of Deputies, and four by the Senate, elected in both cases by three-fifths of their respective members.

It consists of 12 members, appointed by the King, 4 of which are proposed by the Congress of Deputies by three-fifths of its members, 4 of which are proposed by the Senate by three-fifths of its members as well, 2 proposed by the executive and 2 proposed by the General Council of the Judiciary.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Lyman Trumbull ( Republican, Illinois ), became involved in merging different proposals for an amendment.

As the number of proposals and the extent of their scope began to grow, the Senate Judiciary Committee presented the Senate with an amendment proposal combining the drafts of Ashley, Wilson and Henderson.

However, concerning children born in the United States to parents who are not U. S. citizens ( and not foreign diplomats ), three Senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no Senator offered a contrary opinion.

The Senate Judiciary Committee conducts hearings and votes on whether the nomination should go to the full Senate with a positive, negative or neutral report.

In passing the 2002 Sarbanes – Oxley Act, the Senate Judiciary Committee found that whistleblower protections were dependent on the " patchwork and vagaries " of varying state statutes.

* October 11 – October 13 – The U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him.

Boies was also Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Antitrust Subcommittee in 1978, and served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in 1979.

In the Senate, Thurman served on the Judiciary Committee, becoming its chairman when the Democrats won control of the Senate in the 46th Congress.

At various times he served as President pro tempore of the U. S. Senate, Chairman of the Finance Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee, Committee on Engrossed Bills, Committee on Private Land Claims, Library Committee and the Committee on the revision of laws.