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Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado asked Gabbard multiple questions about the new Iranian leadership and their intentions. The president himself has said the status of Iranian leadership isn't clear following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
On Khamenei's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, Gabbard said "it is unclear of his status or his involvement." The clerical body responsible for selecting the new supreme leader announced Mojtaba Khamenei as the new leader on March 8, but he has not been seen in public.
Six Colorado Democrats on Wednesday demanded answers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on the agency’s apparent violations of its own rules governing the detention of immigrants in holding rooms in nondescript locations across the state.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), an Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, on Wednesday expressed his frustration with the U.S. operation against Iran.
“I learned when I was fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, pound their chest, talk about the costs of war and act tough, they’re not talking about them doing it,” Crow said during a news conference alongside other House Democrats.
Several of Colorado’s top elected officials called for congressional intervention hours after the U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran, with the state’s federal delegation reacting largely along party lines, either supporting or decrying Saturday’s military action by President Donald Trump’s administration.
AURORA | Aurora Democratic Rep. Jason Crow’s town hall Wednesday night had fewer participants in the audience than other recent meetings, but participants said they felt like there was more hope.
“The good news is I’m here and not currently incarcerated by the Trump administration,” Crow said in his introduction.
During the two-hour event at Hinkley High School, Crow fielded questions on veterans’ benefits, immigration detention oversight, threats to research funding, media freedom and the role of the military in domestic affairs.
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow said Wednesday that "there will be costs" for the federal officials who unsuccessfully tried to indict him and five other Democratic legislators, hours after Crow's lawyer warned prosecutors against further attempts to charge the lawmakers.
"We are taking names, we are making lists," Crow said in an interview.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Wednesday demanded U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro preserve all evidence related to her unsuccessful effort to bring charges against him and five other Democratic lawmakers.
The request comes a day after Pirro’s office failed to obtain a criminal indictment against the lawmakers for putting out a video last year urging military personnel not to carry out illegal orders.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Wednesday applauded a grand jury’s decision not to indict him and five other Democratic lawmakers over their participation in a controversial video last year, arguing that the Department of Justice “failed, and they will always fail.”
A federal judge again ordered authorities to grant two Colorado congressmen and their colleagues unannounced access to immigration detention centers Monday.
The ruling is the latest blow to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s monthslong effort to slow congressional oversight of the facilities.
The temporary restraining order applied by U.S. District Court Judge Jia M. Cobb will once again allow members of Congress to access detention centers — like the one in Aurora — without prior notice to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
Every Democratic member of Congress from Colorado called for U.S. Secretary of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem to resign after Border Patrol agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The legislators say U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is a lawless, rogue agency terrorizing Americans.