James Rogan: “I rise today not as a Republican, but as an American. The almost daily allegations engulfing the White House concern me…”

“I rise today not as a Republican, but as an American. The almost daily allegations engulfing the White House concern me not from a political standpoint as much as they do from a national standpoint. Mr. Speaker, I like to think that, if these same allegations were revolving around a Republican administration, my loyalty to my country would be much higher than my loyalty to party. I would urge a thorough investigation of this sort of conduct. When I was a new prosecutor in Los Angeles County, I first learned of a thing called the SODDI defense. There was a certain criminal that I was prosecuting, who was clearly guilty, and he was claiming someone else had committed the offense. My boss told me, ``He is raising the SODDI defense.'' I spent a day looking for the SODDI case to figure out what it was all about. My boss laughed at me later. He told me the SODDI defense was an acronym for when a criminal claimed ``some other dude did it.'' I later discovered that the louder a criminal professed that ``some other dude did it,'' typically there was a correlating increase in the amount of evidence against them.”