Senate Judiciary Committee

Senators: “Seedance 2.0 poses a direct threat to the American intellectual property system and, more broadly, to the constitutional rights and economic livelihoods of our creative community.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today urged ByteDance to immediately…

Legislation is supported by antitrust enforcers from both sides of the aisle   WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, today joined U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, and U.S. Representative Jamie…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, today emphasized the grave dangers of President Trump’s executive order aiming to terminate birthright citizenship, a constitutional right granted under the Fourteenth Amendment. In his remarks, Senator Welch outlined how Americans’ constitutional and civil rights are being violated under…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, joined U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13), and 70 bicameral Democrats in calling for a new investigation of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

Welch secures commitment from Noem to provide answers about compensation her “special advisor” may have received as a result of taxpayer-funded DHS contracts  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, today grilled Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi for bypassing a competitive bidding process to award a…