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Tuesday 5 december 2017
Supporters rally, demand due-process for US Rep. Conyers

By COREY WILLIAMS settled a complaint in 2015 Arnold Reed.
Associated Press from a woman who alleged House Minority Leader Nan-
DETROIT (AP) — Prominent she was fired because she cy Pelosi and a number of
clergy, Detroit elected rejected his sexual advanc- other colleagues in the
leaders and community es. BuzzFeed reported that House have called for the
activists said Monday they Conyers’ office paid the 88-year-old Detroit Demo-
will go to Washington — if woman more than $27,000 crat to step down.
necessary — to demand in the confidential settle- But some speaking at Mon-
due process for Rep. John ment. day’s rally in Detroit urged
Conyers, who faces allega- Brown, 61, later publicly him not to do so.
tions of sexual harassment identified herself as filing “The congressman has
from several former staffers. the complaint and said called for an investigation,”
Dozens of people attended the congressman proposi- Minister Malik Shabazz said.
a rally at Hartford Memorial tioned her for sex multiple “There will be an investiga-
Baptist Church in Detroit. times over more than a de- tion and there should not
“We don’t mind going to cade. be a resignation.”
the White House, to the U.S. The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch of the BuzzFeed also published Reed said last week that
House of Representatives,” NAACP speaks at a rally in Detroit, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. Clergy, affidavits from former staff Conyers was hospitalized
Detroit elected leaders and community activists are calling for
Michigan Rep. Sherry Gay- due process in support of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who members who said they after feeling lightheaded.
Dagnogo, D-Detroit, said. faces allegations of sexual harassment from several women had witnessed Conyers It was not clear Monday if
“We are demanding due who once worked for him. touching female staffers in- Conyers still was hospital-
process.” (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) appropriately or requesting ized. The Associated Press
The House Ethics Commit- women who once worked week before the commit- sexual favors. left a message seeking
tee is investigating allega- for Conyers, including tee. Conyers denies the allega- comment from Reed.
tions of harassment and claims by Marion Brown Last month, BuzzFeed News tions and will fight them, Conyers first was elected to
inappropriate touching by who could testify later this reported that Conyers had according to his attorney the U.S. House in 1964. q

Supreme Court allows full enforcement of Trump travel ban

By MARK SHERMAN States by residents of six ultimately are expected to ald Trump in September. Muslims. They say that was
Associated Press mostly Muslim countries. rule on its legality. Lower courts have contin- reinforced most recently
WASHINGTON (AP) — The This is not a final ruling on But the action indicates ued to find problems with by Trump’s retweets of an-
Supreme Court on Monday the travel ban: Challenges that the high court might the policy. ti-Muslim videos.
allowed the Trump admin- to the policy are winding eventually approve the lat- Opponents of this and pre- “President Trump’s anti-
istration to fully enforce a through the federal courts, est version of the ban, an- vious versions of the ban say Muslim prejudice is no se-
ban on travel to the United and the justices themselves nounced by President Don- they show a bias against cret. He has repeatedly
confirmed it, including just
last week on Twitter. It’s un-
fortunate that the full ban
can move forward for now,
but this order does not
address the merits of our
claims,” said Omar Jad-
wat, director of the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union’s
Immigrants’ Rights Project.
The ACLU is representing
some opponents of the
ban.
Just two justices, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Sonia
Sotomayor, noted their
disagreement with court
orders allowing the latest
policy to take full effect.
The new policy is not ex-
pected to cause the cha-
os that ensued at airports
when Trump rolled out his
first ban without warning in
January. The ban applies
to travelers from Chad,
Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria
and Yemen. Lower courts
had said people from
those nations with a claim
of a “bona fide” relation-
ship with someone in the
United States could not be
kept out of the country. q