Press Releases

Ahead of Trump's voter commission's first meeting, the Congressional Black Caucus and House Judiciary Committee Democrats will host a forum on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at 3p.m. to examine voting rights and privacy concerns related to recent requests made by the commission's co-chair, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Earlier today, the Department of Justice released a redacted copy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions's application for a security clearance in response to a lawsuit filed by watchdog group American Oversight. The form asks if Sessions "had any contact with a foreign government, its establishment . . . or its representatives, whether inside or outside the U.S."

Mr. Sessions responded: "No."

Today, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) reintroduced the bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2017 (VRAA), which would fully restore and modernize the original Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 to reflect today's societal needs and challenges.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (MI-13) today gave the following statement during the markup of H.R. 2851, the "Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act of 2017."

H.R. 2851, the "Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act of 2017," is intended to address the problem of the illicit use of analog synthetic drugs.

This bill involves important issues concerning public health and safety, and also fairness in our criminal justice system.

Today, all seventeen Democratic members of the House Committee on the Judiciary wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to request information about his decision to abruptly settle United States v. Prevezon Holdings Ltd, a money laundering case that the Department of Justice (DOJ) abruptly settled that involved Russia sanctions, New York real estate holdings, and the lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr.

Today, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee applauded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for finalizing a rule to prohibit the use of pre-dispute, binding ("forced") arbitration in contracts for consumer financial products such as checking or savings accounts, student loans, or credit cards.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), along with Judiciary Subcommittee Ranking Member David N. Cicilline (D-RI), and Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), the sponsor of the Arbitration Fairness Act, released the following statement:

U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (D-RI), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, today called on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to stop taking away the rights of working people to collectively hold their employers accountable for wage theft, employment discrimination, and other unlawful workplace conduct.

Today, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and Judiciary Committee Democrats sent letters to the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors raising concerns that recent requests of them from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the White House voter fraud commission (Commission) may lead to voter suppression and privacy violations.