Judiciary
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned the premise of a Republican-inspired hearing on “Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation,” calling it “disingenuous.”
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today introduced the Independent Acting Inspectors Generals Act aimed at insulating both permanent and acting inspectors general – appointed to investigate waste, fraud and abuse in their agencies and departments – from political interference.
President Donald Trump fired inspectors general as one of his first acts in office. Federal inspectors general were created in 1978 to establish independent oversight of federal agencies.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today said he continues to wonder what was uncovered during the execution of a search warrant at disgraced pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein’s townhouse ordered by Trump Attorney General Bill Barr.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, today condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA, which limits the ability of federal courts to issue nationwide injunctions against unlawful executive actions.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today introduced the National Emergencies Reform Act. The measure would rebalance the power dynamic between Congress and the Executive branch by permitting a president to declare a national emergency for 30 days and require a vote of Congress to extend it beyond that time.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) was appointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence today. In his new role, he will be involved in the nation’s approach to a wide variety of threats to national security. In response, he made the following statement:
“I am keenly aware of how important intelligence is during a time of wars in Gaza and Ukraine and ongoing cyber and other threats from Russia, China and around the world. I appreciate Leader Jeffries’ confidence in placing me on this very important committee.”
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance and the Subcommittee on Oversight entitled “Federal Corrections in Focus: Oversight of the Bureau of Prisons.”
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today said Congress has surrendered its Constitutional rights under Article One, including the power of the purse, to the Trump Administration and abandoned its duty to be a check on the Executive Branch at a Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement hearing on sanctuary jurisdictions.
In his statement, he said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, today discussed President Trump’s efforts to upend the judicial system at a hearing entitled “Judicial Overreach and Constitutional Limits on the Federal Courts.” Trump’s efforts include extorting law firms, damaging independent agencies, and proposing to end national injunctive relief, and impeaching judges who make rulings with which he disagrees.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Six weeks after his initial request, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today renewed his demand for information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies, priorities and transparency from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Earlier today, the Trump Administration asked the Supreme Court to consider the challenge to the deportations of Venezuelans accused without evidence of being members of a terrorist gang.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: