Senate Judiciary Committee

Years before coming to Congress, Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., was a public defender, and now he's raising the alarm about proposed cuts by the House and Senate to the federal public defender system, which he calls a "bedrock requirement" of the American judicial system. Over…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) voiced concerns about proposed cuts to the federal defender budget, underscoring the vital role public defenders play in maintaining core principles of the judicial system and stressing how slashing the…

WASHINGTON—Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) addressed the importance of United States Supreme Court ethics reform today in a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. The Committee advanced the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2023, with unanimous Democratic support. The legislation requires the U.S. Supreme Court to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released a statement following the release of a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism on her technical…

WASHINGTON—Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a statement today in response to recent decisions handed down by the Supreme Court to dismantle affirmative action, roll back LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination protections, and overturn the Biden-Harris Administration’s student debt relief program:  “The Supreme…