Press Releases

Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on "The Department of Justice's Guidance on Access to Pools and Spas Under the ADA." The purpose of the hearing was to examine the scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act's ("ADA") more than 20 year old mandate for businesses to take "readily achievable" steps to increase access for people with disabilities, with a particular focus on the Department of Justice regulations and guidance for access to swimming pools.

Today, at a Congressional Summit on Overturning Citizens United, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) pledged to work towards passing a constitutional amendment to expressly permit Congress the power to regulate corporate spending in federal elections. The Supreme Court's decision in Citizen's United v. FEC equated corporate campaign donations with free speech, overturned established federal campaign finance laws, and opened the floodgates on unlimited campaign spending by super PACs.

Today, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on "Voting Wrongs: Oversight of the Justice Department's Voting Rights Enforcement." The purpose of the hearing was to examine the Justice Department's recent handling of voting rights matters, including the Department's decision to challenge certain state's restrictive voter identification laws. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released this statement following the hearing.

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights at a hearing entitled "Ending Racial Profiling in America." He spoke to the need for Congress to enact his legislation to end racial profiling by law enforcement and the importance of community based policing as means to not only stop crime but to also protect citizens' civil rights. Ranking Member Conyers is the lead House cosponsor of H.R. 3618, the "End Racial Profiling Act."

(DETROIT) – Today, Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement in response to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's new proposed consent agreement between the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit.

Today, Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee led by Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder encouraging the Department of Justice to review the shooting of Trayvon Martin under a federal hate crimes statute. Under federal law, it is a crime to willfully cause bodily injury because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person. Mr.

Today, the House of Representatives passed by voice vote H.R. 4086, the "Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act." The bill is a necessary legislative fix in the wake of the decision in Malewicz v. City of Amsterdam, in which U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia broadened the scope of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) expropriation exception to the point where it undermined exchange between American historical and cultural institutions and their foreign counterparts. H.R.

Today at a Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security hearing on the U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services Office, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr (D-Mich) called on the Congress to fund the COPS Program for Fiscal Year 2013 at the level requested by President Obama. The COPS Program has funded the hiring of more than 123,000 state and local police officers and sheriff's deputies in communities across America since its enactment under the Clinton Administration.