Press Releases
More than 100 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by House Judiciary Committee Member Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), wrote to the Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly condemning the President's Muslim ban executive order and calling for a full Member-wide briefing no later than Friday, February 3, 2017.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-LA) today released the following statements in response to President Donald Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court vacancy:
House Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Ranking Member David N. Cicilline (D-RI) released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to eliminate critical protections for consumers' health and product safety, environmental protections, workplace safety, and consumer financial protections:
"Our Federal regulations create jobs and ensure the safety of our food, water and air are not undermined.
Tonight, in a letter to her senior leadership, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates ordered attorneys at the Department of Justice not to defend legal challenges to President Trump's immigration order-which bans entry into the United States to travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and to refugees from around the world. Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response:
More than 160 House Democrats, led by U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) today introduced legislation to defund and rescind President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from Muslim countries and suspending the refugee program.
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: