Bicameral Letter to DOJ about Racial Profiling
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Bicameral Letter to DOJ about Racial Profiling
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Bicameral120417.pdf » Read more » Restrictive State Voter ID Laws: The Real Threat to Voting Rights
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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... Read more » At Senate Judiciary Panel Conyers Calls on Congress to Pass End Racial Profiling Act
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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 ... Read more » Conyers: Proposed Consent Agreement Inconsistent With Our Values
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(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. Last week, Representatives Conyers, Hansen Clarke, and Gary Peters sent a letter to Governor Snyder requesting his administration to explain its position and to provide doc... Read more » House Judiciary Democrats Encourage Department of Justice to Review Trayvon Martin Shooting Under Federal Hate Crime Laws
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120322JudCmtte.pdf » Read more » Conyers-Clarke-Peters letter to Governor Snyder requesting response to about proposed consent agreement
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120322Conyers-Clarke-Peters.pdf » Read more » House Judiciary Democrats Encourage Department of Justice to Review Trayvon Martin Shooting Under Federal Hate Crime Laws
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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 na... Read more » House Passes Chabot-Conyers Bill Encouraging Foreign Countries to Lend Cultural Works to American Museums
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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 exceptio... Read more » Conyers/Cohen Letter to Judiciary Chair Requesting Hearing on Judge Cebull
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Cebull Letter » Read more » Conyers Fights for Police Hiring Program and Proposes More Funding to Fight Crime in Cities Like Highland Park, Michigan
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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 an... Read more » Browse Documents by Date or Issue |
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