McConfuse (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
The voter registration deadline is October 6th. Featuring Senator Barack Obama, Senator Joe Biden, Senator Carl Levin Sean Astin, George Lopez, Adam Brody, Will.i.am, Tatyana Ali, Congressman John Conyers, Rachael Leigh Cook, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ishmael Ahmed, Governor Jennifer Granthome, Michael Murphy, Michigan State Senator Mark Schauer, and Former Governor Jim Blanchard Author: BarackObamadotcom...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
John Conyers (D-MI), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, released a statement today calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor from outside the Justice Department, to continue to investigate the U.S. attorney firings. "We assume that Attorney General Mukasey...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Washington - The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee demanded Tuesday that the attorney general provide an "immediate explanation" for a Justice Department decision that could have cost taxpayers up to $40 million in royalties from a major oil company. Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers' cited a McClatchy story Sept. 12 that detailed the department's rejection of the Colorado U.S. attorney's...
D-Day (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
This happened a few days ago, but John Conyers has teamed up with Health Care For America Now , which is a big deal. Conyers is carrying HR 676, the single-payer health care bill. When HCAN was announced, it was criticized from the left for being a sellout in terms of their principles for a solution to the health care crisis, which was insufficient for single payer advocates. I always considered HCAN...
The Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
1) From the New York Times , “A Fine Mess” by William Kristol 2) From the American Scene , “Welcome to History” by Jim Manzi Is it a sign that we truly are approaching the End Times that the Boss and John Conyers agree on something of vital importance? Both find the administration’s plan to give Henry Paulson a $700 billion blank check to buy up all the country’s bad mortgage debt in all of its many...
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
As taxpayers, we routinely fund scientific research, so it's logical and fair that we should have free access to that research. That's why a bill was passed in 2007 that required all NIH-funded research to be made available to the public within 12 months of publication. Now, John Conyers (D-MI), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Robert Wexler (D-FL), and Tom Feeney (R-FL) are co-sponsoring a bill called the Fair...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Rep. John Conyers called on John McCain today to "halt the Republican Party's efforts to profit politically from the economic misery of others," the Huffington Post reports. (See the story here.)
Liberadio(!) (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
From Brad Friedman at Bradblog.com: The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers’, is calling on the John McCain campaign to “immediately halt Republican vote suppression efforts,” as seen recently in Michigan — where a county GOP chair announced his intention to use home foreclosure lists to challenge voter eligibility at the polls [...]
Stereohyped (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) responds to the GOP's foreclosure-list voting scheme: "In the past two Presidential elections, the country witnessed appalling efforts to limit voter participation in Ohio, Florida and throughout the country. It is beyond disgraceful that the Republican Party now seems to be targeting those who are suffering the most. It [...]
The Brad Blog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers', is calling on the John McCain campaign to "immediately halt Republican vote suppression efforts," as seen recently in Michigan --- where a county GOP chair announced his intention to use home foreclosure lists to challenge voter eligibility at the polls on Election Day --- [...]
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
In reaction to recent claims that the GOP is attempting to block voters in Michigan whose homes have been foreclosed on, one of the state's storied representatives is speaking out and demanding action from Republicans. Rep. John Conyers, chairman of...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) told John McCain's campaign Friday to take control over its supporters following reports that a county Republican chairman in Michigan planned to use lists of recently foreclosed residents to block them from voting "It is beyond disgraceful that the Republican Party now seems to be targeting those who are suffering the most," Conyers said. "It...
Effect Measure (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
John Conyers (D., Michigan) is a liberal Democrat. As head of the Judiciary Committee he has always carried water for the IP crowd. He's at it again. And he isn't alone. When it comes to paying off campaign contributers this is a non-partisant issue: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
The Thorn Papers (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
But given the utterly despicable politicization of Justice during the Bush administration, I don't place much hope in American justice any longer. But anyway, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has asked the Justice Department to block Haley from breaking the law with his rigged ballot: A top congressional Democrat asked the Justice Department Tuesday to block Mississippi's Republican...
www.radioleft.com (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
The House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman, gets its day in (Appeals) court tomorrow. From the committee: " Tomorrow, September 16, 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral argument on the Administration’s request for a stay of a recent decision by United States District Judge John Bates in Committee on the Judiciary v....
