Judiciary
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today announced that Shelby County will receive a $750,000 grant from the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Program for its Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who met with Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs leaders last week to discuss crime in Memphis, today announced a $175,502 grant to the University of Tennessee to strengthen the medical examiner-coroner system.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee who was in the House chamber when insurrectionists attempted to disrupt certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021, today voted for the Presidential Election Reform Act.
The vote on passage was 229 to 203.
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today voted to advance H.R. 5651, the Fresh Start Act, a bill that creates a grant program for states with existing eligible criminal record sealing or expungement laws to support implementation of automatic sealing or expungement processes, to the House floor.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today commemorated Saturday’s Constitution Day, marking the 235th anniversary of the formal signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The holiday has been variously known as “Constitution Day,” “Citizenship Day” and, since 2004, as “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.”
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) applauded today’s Senate Judiciary Committee bipartisan vote to advance the nomination of Kevin G. Ritz to be the next U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee to the Senate floor.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today applauded the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan confirmation of Memphis lawyer Andre Mathis as a judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, has been closely monitoring the crime situation in Memphis, and released the following statement after yesterday’s shootings:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland seeking an update on the status of a Justice Department investigation into baby powder contaminated with carcinogenic asbestos and marketed to women of color.
The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today spoke from the House floor in favor of and then voted for the Assault Weapons Ban Act, which restores and updates the prior assault weapons ban that kept weapons of war out of our communities for a decade before Republicans opposed its renewal.