Judiciary
[WASHINGTON, DC] – The House of Representatives today, by a vote of 419-1, passed Congressman Steve Cohen’s (TN-09) bipartisan National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Extension Act of 2015, H.R. 4246, to ensure that certain members of the National Guard and Reserves who fall on hard economic times after their military service will continue to obtain bankruptcy relief without having to fill out the substantial paperwork required by the so-called "means test" under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. The bill extends the existing “means test” exception until 2019.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today introduced the bipartisan National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Extension Act of 2015 to ensure that certain members of the National Guard and Reserves who fall on hard economic times after their military service will continue to obtain bankruptcy relief without having to fill out the substantial paperwork required by the so-called "means test" under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code.
[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 after the Department of Justice announced that it, in tandem with its Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, would conduct a comprehensive review of the Darrius Stewart shooting.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today cited the shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police on the House floor while renewing his call for a federal law to encourage states to use independent prosecutors in cases involving police use of deadly force: the Police Training and Independent Review Act (H.R. 2302). A video of Congressman Cohen’s full remarks can be found here.
[Washington, D.C.] – The House of Representatives today passed by voice vote the Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act (H.R. 3279), legislation introduced by Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA), and Congressman Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) to increase transparency and give the public access to information about federal payments awarded under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA).
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – At a House Judiciary Committee hearing today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, asked U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to open a federal investigation into the shooting death of Darrius Stewart.