Judiciary
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) noted today's conviction on eight counts of fraud in the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the eight felony guilty pleas in the New York case involving Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) noted that hundreds of newspapers, led by The Boston Globe, used their editorial pages Thursday to defend journalists and the constitutional protection of a free press, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) released the following statement regarding the revocation of the security clearance of former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John O. Brennan:
On the anniversary of the Charlottesville hate march, planned and carried out by a cabal of hate groups including Klansmen and Neo-Nazis, I call upon Americans to reflect upon the tragic loss of life and the deplorable words and actions of the white supremacists and nationalists, countered by passionate Americans standing for love, tolerance, hope, and kindness.
As I watched Spike Lee's "The Black Klansman" last night, I thought back on that event and President Donald Trump's insistence that there were "very fine people on both sides" that day.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) celebrated the passage of the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on this date in 1965, and made the following statement:
[WASHINGTON, DC] – After writing to Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery late yesterday urging him to seek an injunction against the publishing of blueprints for a 3-D downloadable guns, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) today cosponsored legislation to block the proliferation of 3-D guns. A copy of Congressman Cohen's letter to Attorney General Slatery can be found here.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) condemned in the strongest terms the groundless Articles of Impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein introduced last night by members of the Freedom Caucus, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions today urging the Justice Department to continue monitoring the Shelby County Juvenile Court in compliance with a 2012 Memorandum of Understanding. See the letter here.
Shelby County and the Juvenile Court have sought to terminate the agreement.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, condemned what appears to be a new violation of the U.S.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) spoke from the well of the House floor this morning, citing a story in The Commercial Appeal about Tennessee's last-place ranking in voter turnout in a Pew Charitable Trust study of the 2014 mid-term elections.