Judiciary

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today released the following statement on the House Judiciary Committee’s passage of H.R. 759, the Recidivism Risk Reduction Act, the bipartisan prison reform bill. Video of the Congressman’s remarks at the House Judiciary Committee meeting can be found here.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today was selected by the House Judiciary Committee as Ranking Member of the committee’s Executive Overreach Task Force. The Executive Overreach Task Force will conduct hearings and investigations relating to separation of powers and executive overreach issues and will issue reports to the Committee detailing its findings and recommendations.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) yesterday reintroduced the Fresh Start Act (H.R. 4410) to enable non-violent ex-federal offenders who have served their sentence and are now law-abiding, productive members of society to seek to have their conviction expunged from their records.

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today released the following statement to mark the sixth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) decision, which has given corporations a right to buy unlimited influence in our elections.

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today released the following statement hailing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to decline to hear a case, Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, on the Constitution’s “Origination Clause” and its impact on the Affordable Care Act.