Senate Judiciary Committee Meeting: Court Transparency, Intellectual Property, and Judicial Nominations

• •The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider S.1133, regarding media coverage of federal court proceedings.
• •The committee will consider S.1146, regarding the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.
• •The committee will consider S.4591, regarding intellectual property rights for voice and visual likeness.
• •The committee will consider the nomination of Benjamin M. Flowers for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
• •The committee will consider the nomination of Matthew A. Schwartz for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
• •The committee will consider the nomination of Michael J. Hendershot for the Northern District of Ohio.
• •The committee will consider the nomination of Jeffrey T. Kuntz for the Southern District of Florida.
• •The committee will consider the nominations of Arthur Roberts Jones and John George Edward Marck for the Southern District of Texas.
• •The committee will consider the nomination of Don Richard Berthiaume, Jr. for Inspector General of the Department of Justice.
• •The committee will consider the nomination of Sean Costello for United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.
• •The meeting is scheduled for June 11, 2026, at 2:15 PM UTC in Hart Senate Office Building 216.

This meeting determines whether legislation to allow cameras in federal courts and protections for personal likeness rights move forward, and initiates the confirmation process for eight federal judicial and executive branch nominees.

Patterns POLISCOPE noticed across the record. These are observations to investigate, not conclusions.