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Conyers Seeks Probe of Bush Crimes
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jan 9, 2009 10:02 AM EST
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In one of the first acts of the 111th Congress, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers proposed legislation to create a blue-ribbon panel of outside experts to probe the "broad range" of policies pursued by the Bush administration "under claims of unreviewable war powers," including torture of detainees and warrantless wiretaps.
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{"commentId":4730241,"authorDomain":"ryanat"}
Why doesn't Conyers focus on the problems in the area he represents. Schools in Detroit can't even afford to buy toilet paper because they can't manage their money properly.
{"commentId":4730241,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"ryanat"}
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#1 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 10:25 AM EST{"commentId":4730309,"authorDomain":"terry57"}
About the Judiciary Committee
The jurisdiction of the The House Committee on the Judiciary as follows:
- The judiciary and judicial proceedings, civil and criminal.
- Administrative practice and procedure.
- Apportionment of Representatives.
- Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.
- Civil liberties.
- Constitutional amendments.
- Criminal law enforcement.
- Federal courts and judges, and local courts in the Territories and possessions.
- Immigration policy and non-border enforcement.
- Interstate compacts generally.
- Claims against the United States.
- Members of Congress, attendance of members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner; and their acceptance of incompatible offices.
- National penitentiaries.
- Patents, the Patent and Trademark Office, copyrights, and trademarks.
- Presidential succession.
- Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies.
- Revision and codification of the Statutes of the United States.
- State and territorial boundary lines.
- Subversive activities affecting the internal security of the United States.
{"commentId":4730309,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"terry57"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":4730540,"authorDomain":"terry57"}
sorry for the out of sorts post,,,
{"commentId":4730540,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"terry57"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":4730927,"authorDomain":"Prophet"}
Detroit schools are a local problem, a matter for the Detroit school board, not the Congress of the United States. Hopefully, our congress will adress the problems in all of our schools eventually.
{"commentId":4730927,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"Prophet"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":4731258,"authorDomain":"terry57"}
Looks to me like the Judicial Committe could follow up with investigation on about half of their area of responsibility #'s 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 16, 17, & 19.
{"commentId":4731258,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"terry57"}
{"commentId":4732773,"authorDomain":"ryanat"}
Yes it is a local problem, one in which he represents.
{"commentId":4732773,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"ryanat"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":4733145,"authorDomain":"sonnetizer"}
Ryan -- in your copious spare time you may want to read the Constitution. School boards are a local issue and should (rightfully) be dealt with by local authorities. Something about those pesky "states rights" that conservatives whine about when they're not running the big show.
{"commentId":4733145,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"sonnetizer"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":4733716,"authorDomain":"dhardy8207"}
Schools in Detroit can't even afford to buy toilet paper because they can't manage their money properly.
I agree that things such as educational issues should be handled first at a state level. That is why we have "state legislators and senators" to govern on a state level. All school districts are having problems and have been for some time now. My sons are 24 and 22, long past high school graduation. I had to buy toilet tissue, Kleenex, hand sanitizer, hand soap, copy paper, etc. for them to take to school since they were in middle school (6-8th graders).
{"commentId":4733716,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"dhardy8207"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":4734934,"authorDomain":"Prophet"}
Yes it is a local problem, one in which he represents
And there is a local government in place to address it.
{"commentId":4734934,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"Prophet"}
{"commentId":4739719,"authorDomain":"ryanat"}
That's hilarious considering the Detroit Public Schools get federal money. You can talk about the constitution all you want, but the fact is DPS gets money from the federal government, and Conyers is one of the Reps, and he has done nothing, even if it is lending a hand to the situation, or making more light of it. Instead he is pursuing something that will amount to nothing, but a stage to do his grandstanding from.
Something about those pesky "states rights" that conservatives whine about when they're not running the big show.
That's funny, liberals talk about protecting constitutional rights, but are for programs like, the fairness doctrine, and the card check program.
{"commentId":4739719,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"ryanat"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":4730266,"authorDomain":"terry57"}
Now here's a subject that needs to be discussed in detail and a panel that needs to be created. The Bush admin needs to be thoroughly investigated for criminal wrong doing.
{"commentId":4730266,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"terry57"}
- 3 votes
#2 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 10:26 AM EST{"commentId":4730582,"authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
Couldn't agree more.
To me this is, in part, a national security issue. If the rest of the world sees that we will proscute our own war criminals, that we'll bring to justice those who break the laws of our own country, then they may respect us more when we ask them to not treat their citizens with the same distain that GWB has treated the citizens of this country.
(p.s. How'd you format that cool list?)
{"commentId":4730582,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":4730844,"authorDomain":"terry57"}
I cut it from the House Judiciary Committe web site,, it formatted very poorly,,,, and I couldn't get it to change... but here's a link...
{"commentId":4730844,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"terry57"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":4734884,"authorDomain":"Prophet"}
Yes, we have to hold ourselves and our own accountable.
{"commentId":4734884,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"Prophet"}
{"commentId":4736506,"authorDomain":"terry57"}
Yes, we have to hold ourselves and our own accountable.
If we don't we do not have the right to hold others accountable for their indiscretions. No citizen in the USA is above the law. Period!!!!
{"commentId":4736506,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"terry57"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":4775952,"authorDomain":"dwolfkeeper"}
And while we are at it my do the same to Clinton ( true nature of White water and abuse of power), Carter (Just plain bad policies), and Johnson (Vietnam).
Any other road you want to travel on this one?
{"commentId":4775952,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"dwolfkeeper"}
{"commentId":4734987,"authorDomain":"joelearley"}
There be some skeeeeered Republicans now!!!
{"commentId":4734987,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"joelearley"}
- 1 vote
#3 - Fri Jan 9, 2009 1:29 PM EST{"commentId":4735507,"authorDomain":"Prophet"}
I think that the republican party is in its final throes. You can only rule by lies and intimidation for so long.
{"commentId":4735507,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"Prophet"}
{"commentId":4737491,"authorDomain":"joelearley"}
You have no idea how badly i want to hear a bulleten....especially on something like FOX...."We interrupt this newscast to bring you this special bulleten, Richard "Dick" Cheney was arrested and handcuffed, led away at the border believed to be escaping a federal warrant for his arrest, while being led away he was heard sobbing...Don't put me in the same cellmate that George got...he still can't walk straight" Now we return you to "The Family Guy"...
{"commentId":4737491,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"joelearley"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":4739913,"authorDomain":"ryanat"}
I can't wait for the bulletin, " Blago rolls on Democratic Party".
{"commentId":4739913,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"ryanat"}
{"commentId":4740725,"authorDomain":"joelearley"}
He can roll all he wants, if Fitzgerald had ANYTHING of substance, it would have already hit the papers.
The Republicans are about to be owned, boiled, sentenced, and butt raped.
{"commentId":4740725,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"joelearley"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":4774950,"authorDomain":"ryanat"}
Classy way to put it, you sound like a Democrat.
Blago is holding onto what he has, for financial purposes. He has no hope of having a normal job in the future, so he has to play his cards right.
{"commentId":4774950,"threadId":"465232","contentId":"2291989","authorDomain":"ryanat"}
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