Judiciary Committee (Episode: 'Six Meetings Before Lunch' — S01E18)

Judiciary Committee serves as the legislative panel that vets executive nominees through public hearings and pointed questioning. It wields procedural authority to probe witnesses, marshal partisan objections, and translate ethical claims into politically negotiable terms. In the episode it functions as an external pressure point on the nominee and the White House: Republican members threaten lines of attack and force staffers to defend policy with numbers and message discipline. The committee constrains options by converting moral urgency into testable vulnerabilities under oath and procedure.