Judiciary

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today spoke from the House floor on the Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural (CROWN) Hair Act, that will prohibit discrimination on the basis of hair texture or styles commonly associated with a particular race or national origin. He later voted for the measure which passed the House 235 to 189.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today spoke from the House floor in favor of the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act during a debate on the measure and later voted for it. Congressman Cohen also took the occasion to explain that partisan blame for inflation and oil prices are misguided because they are worldwide problems, not something for which President Biden should be faulted.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, condemned violence and threats against public officials during a markup of the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act.

Congressman Cohen said in part:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, on Tuesday questioned expert witnesses at a hearing on "Reimagining Public Safety in the COVID-19 Era."

Congressman Cohen asked Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about his city's use of the $350 billion authorized for police funding in the American Rescue Plan, noting that no Republican members of Congress voted for the measure. Houston received $45 million of that funding to augment its efforts, Turner said.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today presided at a hearing on "Discrimination and the Civil Rights of the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian American Communities."

In his opening statement, Congressman Cohen said in part:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today voted for and the House passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching for the first time a federal crime. Emmett Till was a Chicago teenager lynched in Money, Mississippi, not far south of Memphis, in 1955.

The vote was 422 to 3.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today praised President Biden's historic selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for the U.S. Supreme Court. She would be the first Black woman and the first former federal public defender on the Supreme Court.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today led a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland with 16 other Members of Congress asking the Department of Justice to reinstate integrated employment guidance that was rescinded by Trump Administration Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The guidance outlines state and local governments' obligations to administer employment services in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court's landmark 1999 Olmstead v.