United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution is one of six subcommittees within the Senate Judiciary Committee. The subcommittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of Sam Ervin, whose investigations and lobbying — together with Frank Church and the Church Commission — led to the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Jurisdiction[]

From the Senate Judiciary Committee website:

(1) Amendments to the United States Constitution
(2) Civil rights oversight
(3) Property rights
(4) Federal-state relations
(5) Individual rights
(6) Commemorative Congressional Resolutions
(7) Interstate compacts

Members, 117th Congress[]

Majority	Minority
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut, Chair Dianne Feinstein, California Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Jon Ossoff, Georgia	Ted Cruz, Texas, Ranking Member John Cornyn, Texas Mike Lee, Utah Ben Sasse, Nebraska

Historical subcommittee rosters[]

116th Congress[]

Majority	Minority
Ted Cruz, Texas, Chair John Cornyn, Texas Mike Crapo, Idaho Mike Lee, Utah Ben Sasse, Nebraska Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee	Mazie Hirono, Hawaii, Ranking Member Dick Durbin, Illinois Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Chris Coons, Delaware Kamala Harris, California

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