Jackson Lee, Sheila Rep

=we the ppl<table class="item_table" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 824.1px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td class="actions" data-text="JACKSON LEE, SHEILA" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 12px 10px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a target="blank" href="https://www.congress.gov/member/sheila-jackson-lee/J000032" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">p. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]</a></td><td class="date" data-text="2021-12-07" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 12px 10px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); white-space: nowrap;">12/07/2021</td></tr><tr><td class="actions" data-text="Titus, Dina" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 12px 10px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a target="blank" href="https://www.congress.gov/member/dina-titus/T000468" style="background-color: transparent;">Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]</a></td><td class="date" data-text="2021-12-13" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 12px 10px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); white-space: nowrap;">12/13/2021</td></tr></tbody></table>=when Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee brought special counsel John Durham in for a hearing Wednesday, they thought it’d be an opportunity to tout Durham’s findings that the FBI should not have launched an investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), however, took it as an opportunity to personally embarrass Durham.Nadler specifically went after Durham’s limited credentials.“You only filed three criminal cases. You only brought two cases to trial, correct?” Nadler asked Durham. Durham said that was correct.<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="Storylines" id="storylines-target-middle" style="padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2);" /></div>“You lost all the cases you brought to trial, correct?” Nadler asked. Durham again said that was correct.And then Nadler questioned the length and cost of the investigation, which Durham tried to defend. Ultimately Durham had to agree, however, that his investigation into the investigation took four years to complete.The exchange was one of several tense interactions between Durham and Democrats Wednesday—with members like Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) insisting Durham is at risk of damaging his reputation, and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) questioning the merits of the investigation, leading to some raised voices from around the room.Durham’s exchange with Schiff led to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) banging his knuckles on the table across the room, mimicking a gavel.At least one Democrat, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), also criticized Chairman Jim Jordan’s conduct during the hearing after Jordan mocked a line of questioning by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) about Durham’s conversations with Attorney General Bill Barr. During Nadler’s opening statement, the Ohio Republican could be seen shaking his head and lightly chuckling at the remarks.Durham during the hearing toed the line of spicy responses and cordial conversation, occasionally objecting to more personal lines of attacks from Democrats. After Cohen insisted Durham was risking his reputation, Durham said he only cares about his reputation among people he respects, his family and his “lord,” which drew applause from Republicans around the room.Durham previously spoke to members of the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday. He’s broadly suggested enacting some reforms to the FBI and the Department of Justice.Wednesday, he told members of the panel his recommendations were “not an easy fix.”“It’s going to take time to rebuild the public’s confidence in the institution,” he said.=<div></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-accuses-rep-sheila-jackson-lee-blood-libel-towards-white-people">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-accuses-rep-sheila-jackson-lee-blood-libel-towards-white-people</a></div><div>
</div><div>=</div>==JUAN GONZÁLEZ: I want to turn to Texas state Representative Sheila Jackson Lee questioning Attorney General Jeff Sessions in November about the leaked FBI counterterrorism memo claiming that so-called black identity extremists pose a threat to law enforcement.<blockquote style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243);">REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE: Are you familiar with the names Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice? My question is, as I hold up the poster dealing with the report under your jurisdiction, “Black Identity Extremists,” it is interesting to me that you are opposing individuals who are opposing lethal force, similar to the attack on Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King on COINTELPRO, but there seems to be no report dealing with the tiki torch parade in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not replace us.” Why is there an attack on black activists versus any reports dealing with the “alt-right” and the white nationalists? Can you answer that question, quickly?</blockquote><blockquote style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS: I’m not aware—</blockquote><blockquote style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE: Are you planning on investigating that?</blockquote><blockquote style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS: When was that report completed?</blockquote><blockquote style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE: In August of 2017.</blockquote><blockquote style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS: I’m not aware—I have not studied that report.</blockquote><blockquote style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE: I ask you, too, because it’s an attack on individuals who are simply trying to petition the government in a redress of grievances.</blockquote>JUAN GONZÁLEZ: That was U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee questioning Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Malkia Cyril, your comments?MALKIA CYRIL: I mean, look, white supremacists have committed the largest share of domestic extremist-related killings last year. We know that white supremacy and white supremacists represent the biggest domestic threat to the United States. And yet, Trump cut funding to countering violent extremism to fight white supremacy. We understand very clearly where the priorities lie. And in a digital environment, those priorities—that discrimination and that undue focus on black people and black activists becomes exacerbated. So, that—you know, first of all, I’m just so happy to hear that sister speak so clearly to this issue, but we understand very, very clearly that under these current political conditions, black activists are being targeted, Muslims are being targeted, immigrants are being targeted, while white supremacists are running free....