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Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) sent a letter to Chief Judge Ed Carnes and Judge Gerald Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit regarding the arrest and the ongoing prosecution of Middle District of Alabama Judge Mark Fuller in Atlanta, Georgia for a violation of state criminal law.
Earlier this year on September 10, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. and eleven other House Judiciary Democrats issued a letter to the National Football League (NFL) raising questions as to how the league handled the Ray Rice situation and about their domestic violence polices. Also copied on the letter were the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), Major League Baseball (MLB), and the National Basketball Association (NBA).
DETROIT – House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. released the following statement after the announcement of the grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson, MO police officer Darren Wilson:
Statement: John Conyers, Jr.
ACLU-Metro Detroit Forum
Modern Policing and the Community
November 20, 2014
Tonight the nation anxiously awaits the decision of a small group of people on the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri. Not since the days of the Rodney King beating has the ruling of 12 randomly chosen people carried such weight.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. released the following statement in support of President Obama's impending announcement that he will exercise his authority under existing law to improve our broken immigration system through executive action:
Statement of Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr.
Hearing on: Oversight of the United States Secret Service
Committee on the Judiciary
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 10:00 AM
2141 Rayburn Building
Today, the Committee will examine the operation of an agency that performs two vital missions for our country: the protection of the president and vice president and other dignitaries, and the protection of our payment and financial systems.
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr., released the following statement after the Senate fell two votes short of ending debate on the USA FREEDOM Act of 2014. The 58-42 vote effectively cuts off any prospect of surveillance reform in the 113th Congress. The USA FREEDOM Act would have introduced sweeping reforms to various government surveillance programs, including the bulk collection of telephone metadata at the National Security Agency.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. released the following statement today on President Obama's nomination of U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch, Eastern District of New York, to serve as the next Attorney General of the United States: