James C. Justice
Republican · WV · U.S. Senate
Record of service
- In office
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 96 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 75
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Charleston, WV · 304-342-5855
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
James C. Justice's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
James C. Justice (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Justicesits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Special Committee on Agingcenter · 13 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurshipcenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Justice's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Trump’s Illegal Campaign Ads Are an Admission of DefeatThis week, one of the most talked-about stories has been President Donald Trump’s decision to spend taxpayer money on campaign ads that the administration is misleadingly characterizing as “public service announcements.” The move is vintage Trump in that the …
The New Republic · October 3, 2026
West Virginia's Justice may delay decision on running for governorSen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., “may have to” wait until after the midterms to decide on whether to run for his old job as governor — and challenge incumbent Gov. Patrick Morrisey, he told Semafor in an interview this week. The Republican senator said he doesn’t “…
Biztoc.com · October 2, 2026
GOP senators blast party's final stretch as voters have 'a real problem with us': NYTGOP senators turned on their own party's handling of the final stretch of Congress and faulted leaders for burning precious floor time.Republicans spent their final hours in the Capitol staging votes they knew would fail, The New York Times reported Thursday.…
Raw Story · October 2, 2026
'I've done a bad job': Trump acknowledges voter anger as GOP braces for disasterPresident Donald Trump admitted this week he's failed to convince Americans the economy is actually working, as Senate Republicans head home for the midterms carrying real fear that the party hasn't done enough to address voters' financial pain.Despite passin…
Raw Story · October 1, 2026
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