Cory Booker, Kamala Harris join Senate Judiciary Committee

By Kelly Cohen

Published January 9, 2018 8:38pm ET

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Cory Booker, Kamala Harris join Senate Judiciary Committee — Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., (pictured left) and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., (pictured right) are now joining the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to statements made on Tuesday. Booker will be the first black male to sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, while Harris becomes the first black female to sit on the committee since the 1990s. (AP Photos) | Evan Vucci

Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris will join the Senate Judiciary Committee, which hasn’t had a black senator as a member since the 1990s.

“The Trump administration has repeatedly demonstrated its hostility to the ideals of civil rights and equal justice for all,” Booker, of New Jersey, said Tuesday in a statement. “As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will make it my mission to check and balance President Trump and Attorney General [Jeff] Sessions.”

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