United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights 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 founding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Jurisdiction [edit]

From the Senate Judiciary Committee website:

Majority	Minority
Dick Durbin, Illinois, Chairman Al Franken, Minnesota Chris Coons, Delaware Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Mazie Hirono, Hawaii	Ted Cruz, Texas, Ranking Member Lindsey Graham, South Carolina John Cornyn, Texas Orrin Hatch, Utah

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