{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-responds-trumps-meddling-tennessee-electoral", "Congressman Cohen Responds to Trump\u2019s Meddling in Tennessee Electoral Representation", "2026-04-30", "2026", "2026-04", "Democrat", "House", "TN", "Steve Cohen", "C001068", "cohen.house.gov", "cohen", "https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today reviewed President Trump\u2019s social media broadside calling for Congressional redistricting in Tennessee, and made the following statement:\n\n\u201cTrump and the GOP want to take power away from Black voters in Memphis and nationwide. Donald Trump\u2019s Jim Crow Supreme Court has emasculated the Voting Rights Act \u2014 the last line of defense in protecting fair representation in Congress for majority Black communities like Memphis, the same city where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed while fighting for Black Americans to have a voice in their own government. That\u2019s the voice they\u2019re trying to take away.\n\n\u201cThe Voting Rights Act was the crowning jewel of legislation passed under President Lyndon B. Johnson, fought for by civil rights leaders like MLK and John Lewis. They\u2019ve been dismantling it for years, and with this decision they want to put it to rest. It\u2019s the greatest setback to civil rights since Plessy v. Ferguson in the Jim Crow era.\n\n\u201cIt took the GOP less than six hours to start eyeing Memphis after the SCOTUS decision on Louisiana, and that tells you everything. The grift, the corruption, the mass deportations and violence, Trump and the GOP know it\u2019s over after November \u2014 unless they can keep people from the polls, or redraw the maps entirely beforehand.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of uncertainty right now, but you can count on this: I will not back down. My team and I are already in touch with experienced voting rights attorneys to see what can be done to try and stop this \u2014 more to come.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-05-14T06:11:37Z", "2026-05-14T06:12:56Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-responds-trumps-meddling-tennessee-electoral"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.079911831766367, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}