John Conyers
John Conyers
John James Conyers, Jr.is the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district. He has been a member of Congress since 1965 and is currently its longest-serving current member, making him the Dean of the House of Representatives. The district includes the western half of Detroit, as well as River Rouge, Ecorse, Redford Township, Dearborn Heights, Highland Park, Westland, Garden City, Inkster, Wayne, and Romulus. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 May 1929
CountryUnited States of America
campaign finance has no relationship to the Starr referral and amazingly, this committee has now subpoenaed the president of the United States and the attorney general of the United States to provide documents that they don't have the authority to provide without a court order, whose criteria this committee is yet to even satisfy.
Because the Administration is unable to send a clear message about America's intentions in Iraq, Congress must take this responsibility.
In my judgment, eliminating prosecutorial options at the same time that the defendant has failed to yield any of its own options threaten to weaken and slow down the case, rather than provide a route to 'prompt, effective, and certain relief' as your press release claims,
The administration's continued defiance of constitutional safeguards seems to have no end in sight, ... This decision decimates the Fourth Amendment.
Sunsets were a step in the right direction, but they don't address the underlying problem. They are not a solution for bad law. We should be fixing the problems of the Patriot Act. Sunsets will be of no relief to those who have their constitutional rights violated in the next four years.
a serious abuse of power or a serious abuse of official duties.
It was so unbelievable that this woman -- this one woman -- had the courage to take a seat and refuse to get up and give it up to a white gentleman,
This is the ultimate acknowledgment by the government of this woman who challenged the laws of her state to help end segregation,
Even worse than an extra-marital affair is the use of federal prosecutors and federal agents to expose an extra-martial relationship. Yes, there is a threat to society here but it is from the tactics from a 'win-at-all-costs' prosecutor determined to sink a president of the opposition party.
The bill does nothing to target the one percent of gun dealers who are responsible for selling nearly half of the guns traced to crime, ... It does nothing to plug the NRA-sponsored loopholes that, among other things, allows criminals to get out of jail and get their guns back.
They want to get easier convictions, ... When you have a military tribunal, there are very few people who don't get convicted in them just as a matter of course.
For a long time people were a little bit afraid of Rosa Parks because she had created this whole new modern civil rights movement,
creates a process grounded in the Constitution that is focused, fair, expeditious and deliberate.
This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.