US congressman urges Biden to ban six UK lawyers for ‘enabling’ oligarchs

Steve Cohen says the US must establish deterrents' against lawyers accused of carrying out unscrupulous work'

A US congressman has urged the Biden administration to ban six British lawyers from entering the US amid accusations that the lawyers have enabled" Putin's" oligarchs by engaging in abusive" lawsuits against journalists as part of an alleged effort to silence them.

Steve Cohen, a Democratic congressman from Tennessee, said in a letter to the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, that the US needed to begin establishing deterrents" against lawyers whom he accused of performing unscrupulous work" that ultimately undermined democratic values.