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The following images appear among the rotating banner photos on the Senate Judiciary Committee homepage. All photos are followed by descriptive captions. Photos should not be reprinted or reproduced.

July 13, 2009 - Featured Banner Image - On July 13, 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee began the confirmation hearing for the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. For more photographs, click here. U.S. Senate Photography Studio.	April 11, 1968 - Featured Banner Image - President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law on April 11, 1698. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
March 24, 1939 - Featured Banner Image - Senator William Borah, Attorney General Frank Murphy, Supreme Court nominee William Douglas, and Senator Carl Hatch speak before a Judiciary Subcommittee meeting to consider Douglas's nomination. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division	January 16, 1939 - Featured Banner Image - The Senate Judiciary Committee reported the nomination of Felix Frankfurter to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Seated from left to right are Senators Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Warren R. Austin, Chairman, Henry F. Ashurst, Thomas Connally, and George W. Norris. Standing from left to right are Senators Carl A. Hatch, Key Pittman, Matthew M. Neely, Frederick Van Nuys, Edward R. Burke, Marvel M. Logan, James H. Hughes, Pat Harrison, Alexander Wiley, and John A. Danaher. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
January 12, 1939 - Featured Banner Image - Felix Frankfurter testified before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. Frankfurter is featured in the center of the photograph, taken in the historic Senate Caucus Room. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division	January 12, 1939 - Featured Banner Image - Felix Frankfurter testified before a Judiciary Subcommittee. Picture from left to right are Senators William H. King, Chairman Matthew M. Neely, and George W. Norris. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
January 7, 1939 - Featured Banner Image - A Judiciary Subcommittee met to consider the nomination of Felix Frankfurter to the U.S. Supreme Court. Pictured from left to right: Senator George W. Norris, Charles L. McNary, Chairman Matthew M. Neely, Patrick A. McCarran, William H. King, and Thomas Connally. Standing in back from left to right are Senators James H. Hughes and Warren R. Austin. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographic Division	January 7, 1939 - Featured Banner Image - Senators Matthew Neely, Pat McCarran, and Tom Connolly speak with each other in advance of the Judiciary Committee's hearings to consider Felix Frankfurter's nomination to the Supreme Court. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
February 9, 1938 - Featured Banner Image - Emma Guffey Miller of the Democratic National Committee - and sister of Senator Joseph Guffey - testified before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in support of the Burke Constitutional Amendment for Equal Rights for Women. She is pictured with Senator Edward Burke. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division	February 7, 1938 - Featured Banner Image - New York Attorney Dorothy Straus testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her concerns that a proposed constitutional amendment to establish equal rights for women would threaten existing labor protections for women. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
January 20, 1938 - Featured Banner Image - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to report the nomination of Solicitor General Stanley Reed to be an Association Justice of the Supreme Court. Pictured from left to right are Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, Senator Marvel M. Logan, and Reed. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division	July 22, 1937 - Featured Banner Image - Vice President Garner attended a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to discuss pending legislation to reorganize the federal judiciary. Seated from left to right are Senator Marvel M. Logan, Vice President Garner, and Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley. Standing from left to right are Chairman Henry F. Ashurst and Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
August 16, 1937 - Featured Banner Image - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 15-4 to report the nomination of Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court of the United States. Committee Chairman Henry Ashurst is seated, surrounded by other members of the Committee. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division	March 19, 1937 - Featured Banner Image - Committee Chairman Henry F. Ashurst welcomes Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, former wife of the Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and her daughter Mrs. Millard Tydings, whose husband was a Senator from Maryland. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
March 12, 1937 - Featured Banner Image - Chairman Henry F. Ashurst, right, speaks with Joseph D. Keenan, an assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, during the Committee's debate over President Roosevelt's court reform proposals. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division	March 10, 1937 - Featured Banner Image - Attorney General Homer S. Cummings testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about President Roosevelt's proposal to reorganize the Supreme Court. Here, he enters the Capitol with his wife, and Senator William Gibbs McAdoo. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
March 10, 1937 - Featured Banner Image - Attorney General Homer S. Cummings was the first witness to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about President Roosevelt's proposal to reorganize the courts. Pictured from left to right are Chairman Henry F. Ashurst, Cummings, and Senator Key Pittman. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division	February 8, 1937 - Featured Banner Image - The Senate Judiciary Committee considered President Roosevelt's proposal to reform the federal judiciary. Pictured are Senators Patrick A. McCarran (left) and Key Pittman, both of Nevada. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
February 8, 1937 - Featured Banner Image - The Senate Judiciary Committee considered President Roosevelt's proposal to reform the federal judiciary. Seated left to right are Senators William E. Borah, Chairman Henry F. Ashurst, and Patrick A. McCarran. Standing left to right are Senators Frederick Van Nuys, Edward R. Burke., Warren R. Austin, Key Pittman, George McGill, and Carl A. Hatch. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division	May 1, 1929 - Featured Banner Image - The Senate Judiciary Committee considered the deterioration of the nation's financial system at a May 1, 1929, hearing. Pictured from left to right are Judiciary Committee members Lee S. Overman, George W. Norris, John J. Blaine, D.O. Hastings, Thomas J. Walsh, Charles W. Waterman, and Frederick Steiwer. U.S. Senate Historical Office
1919 - Featured Banner Image - The Senate Judiciary Committee held a Subcommittee hearing about Bolshevik Propaganda on February 11, 1919. Pictured from left to right are Senators Josiah Oliver Wolcott, Chairman Lee S. Overman, and Knute Nelson. U.S. Senate Historical Office	March 3, 1913 - Featured Banner Image - Suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue on March 3, 1913. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Prints and Photographs Division
1864 - Featured Banner Image - Excerpt from a letter from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull to President Abraham Lincoln about recognition of credentials of Senators from Arkansas. Library of Congress The Abraham Lincoln Papers, Series 1.	1856 - Featured Banner Image - The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room in the Capitol was photographed in 1856 by Glenn Brown. Plate 239, Senate Document 56-30, Volume 2. U.S. Senate Historical Office
December 10, 1816 - Featured Banner Image - Twenty-five years after the Senate's establishment it adopted a resolution establishing 11 standing Committees, including the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives	Undated - Feature Banner Image - Senators Howard Metzenbaum, Edward Kennedy, and Strom Thurmond are pictured behind the dais in this undated photograph. U.S. Senate Historical Office.
Undated - Feature Banner Image - In this undated photo, Chairman James O. Eastland and Senators Strom Thurmond Marlow Cook, and Edward Gurney sit behind the dais in the Committee hearing room. U.S. Senate Historical Office	Undated - Feature Banner Image - This undated photograph depicts Senate Judiciary Committee members Philip Hart, Clifford Hansen, and Everett Dirksen. U.S. Senate Historical Office
Featured Banner Image - The marble relief that welcomes visitors to the Supreme Court of the United States with the phrase, "Equal Justice Under Law." The Supreme Court is located across the street from the U.S. Capitol building. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee	Featured Banner Image - The United States Capitol is flanked to the North by the Senate office buildings, and to the South by the House of Representatives office buildings. The Capitol is seen here from the South. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
Featured Banner Image - The Senate Judiciary Committee meets in room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Committee hearings are open to the public, and the hearing room can accommodate approximately 70 public visitors during regular hearings. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee	Featured Banner Image - The U.S. Capitol is connected underground to the Senate office buildings through a series of tunnels. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
Featured Banner Image - Before the construction of the Senate office buildings, the Judiciary Committee convened in the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

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