Ted Lieu

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that no one is above the law, including the president.

The more outrageous acts that Donald Trump engages in, the harder it will be to let bygones be bygones.

As a former prosecutor, I find it very distressing to see Donald Trump's repeated attacks on the rule of law. And this is yet another example of the outrage out behavior of Donald Trump, and that's why the voters fired him, because he…

the reason why the Congress has the power to impeach the President and the President doesn't have the power to impeach us is because we are the lawmaking power and the representatives of the people.

Thank you, Chairman McGovern and Ranking Member Cole for holding this Members Day and for all the members of the committee for your time.

First of all, it is illegal. You cannot do that. You cannot discriminate against any Federal employee based purely on their ethnicity.

So it literally takes years to enforce a congressional subpoena.

And if we get an executive branch, if we get a President of whatever political party or persuasion who decides to thumb his nose at Congress or give the finger to Congress, that is a crisis in our form of government.

You are absolutely right, and I noted in my opening statement both Democratic and Republican administrations have thumbed their noses at Congress.

But we are the preeminent branch of government, the reason we are in Article I, and we come first, like the First Amendment and all of its rights comes first.

I wholeheartedly support Representative Bass' diversify by the State Department.

But at the end of the day, if the witness is wrong on the issue and the courts find that, yes, we have the ability to enforce this subpoena as lawfully ordered, that witness will be on the hook for a hundred thousand dollars.

I am in very strong support of what Mr. Lieu is doing, and I think that we have got to move a process forward that allows us to make the inherent contempt power not just latent within our arsenal but something that is explicit and right…

What we're doing here today is we are planting new thoughts. We're planting new seeds that we hope will blossom into a new way of thinking and building character.

A Judicial DISCLOSE Act, which I plan to introduce, would require groups that run political advertisements supporting or opposing Federal judicial nominations to disclose their biggest donors.

This is how courts are captured. This is how our judges can be seen to have lost their connection to the American people and to the Constitution.

Somehow, the Supreme Court still refuses to adopt a code of ethics.

Without an accountable and independent judiciary, the fundamental promise that all of us are equal in the eyes of the law becomes a lie.

Judges should not serve presidents, parties, or political movements.

Americans now see the Senate as a rushed rubber stamp and many of us on this side of the Capitol are forced to agree.

I have criticized both the Obama and Trump Administrations for supporting a Saudi-led military coalition that has committed multiple war crimes in Yemen.

American officials could plausibly be charged with war crimes.

Unfortunately, the Trump Administration reversed this sale and these are the kinds of weapons being used in war crimes.

It is clear to me that officials in the State Department and the Department of Defense have potential legal liability for aiding and abetting war crimes.

Please read the memo. All three witnesses, please read that 2016 memo, and the second request is please give Congress a copy of that memo.