Press Releases
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to Trump firing Acting Attorney General Sally Yates:
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), and House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly to raise concerns about President Donald Trump's recent immigration executive order and urge for a joint meeting as soon as possible and in no event later than February 1.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-LA) wrote to President Donald Trump to urge that if an investigation must be completed in regards to Trump's voter fraud allegations, that it be completed by a non-partisan independent body and that the investigation also focus on voter suppression in the wake of the 2013 Supreme Court Shelby v. Holder decision.
Today, the New York Times reported on a forthcoming Executive Order on "Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants." The order would permit the CIA "to reopen 'black site' prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before President Obama shut them down." The order would also reverse President Obama's decision to give the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all wartime detainees in U.S. custody.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump's statements on voter fraud:
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) welcomed four new Democratic Members to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and announced the new subcommittee structure for the 115th Congress.
Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) are new to the committee. Congressman Jamie Raskin, a former constitutional law professor, will serve in a newly created Vice Ranking Member position this Congress.
All House Judiciary Democrats, led by Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), today renewed their request to have House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) hold hearings to examine the federal conflicts-of-interest and ethics laws that may apply to President Donald Trump.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) released the following statements after the White House announced the commutation of the sentences of hundreds of individuals this week, which brings President Obama's record to 1,715 commutations in total:
Detroit, MI – House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) released the following statement after the Architect of the Capitol removed Untitled #1, the winning entry from Missouri's 1st congressional district in the 2016 Congressional Art Competition following criticism of the artwork by Speaker Ryan and several GOP Members of Congress:
Today, ahead of a classified briefing by the Intelligence Community on attempts by the Russian government to influence the last election, all House Judiciary Democrats, led by Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter urging FBI Director James Comey to publicly acknowledge the existence of an investigation into President-elect Trump and his associates--and to release copies of all relevant investigative materials regarding the investigation to the House Judiciary Committee, in the same way it did after its investigation of Secretary Clinton's private email server.