WATCH HERE Today, House Judiciary Committee Republicans doubled down on their neglect of conducting oversight of the Trump Administration by sabotaging a markup of Representatives David Cicilline (RI-01) and Pramila Jayapal’s (WA-07) resolution of inquiry that requested the Trump Administration to release information pertaining to the firing of FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Session... Read more »
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (MI-13) today gave the following statement during the hearing of H.Res. 488, a resolution of inquiry regarding Jeff Sessions' recusal and James Comey firing Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As you noted, we will now consider virtually the same resolution we visited before the recess. It may be useful to review how the Committee arrived at this point. S... Read more »
ON FRIDAY, September 8th, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a forum entitled “Affirmative Action, Inclusion, and Racial Climate on America’s Campuses.” Amidst national conversations on white supremacy, xenophobia, and racial inequality, reports surfaced suggesting that the Trump Administration has plans to reexamine the values of racial diversity on campuses. This forum will c... Read more »
Today, the Chairman of the 49-member Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congressman Cedric L. Richmond (D-La.), and the co-chairs of the CBC Task Force on Civil and Voting Rights, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), made public a letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee strongly opposing the nomination of Eric Dreiband to lead the Civil Rights Divis... Read more »
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), today released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced it is terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program: “With Attorney General Sessions’ statement today, the Trump Administration has confirmed it is the most anti-immigrant Administration in generations. The anti-immigrant rhetori... Read more »
Today, all House Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Immigration Subcommittee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to ask that he investigate Trump’s pardon of controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio and related events. In July, Joe Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt after years of racially... Read more »
On Thursday, August 24, 2017, Representatives John Conyers, Jr., Sander Levin, Dan Kildee, Debbie Dingell, and Brenda Lawrence, filed an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations bill to prevent Federal funds from being used to implement key sections of President Trump’s travel ban. This includes the provisions known as the Muslim ban and the provisions that ... Read more »
