Conyers v. Bush
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{{Infobox court case
| name = Conyers v. Bush
| court = United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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| full name = Honorable John Conyers, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs
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George W. Bush, et al., Defendants
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| citations = ED Mi No. 06-11972
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| judges = Nancy Garlock Edmunds
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Honorable John Conyers, Jr., et al. v. George W. Bush, et al., No. 2:06-CV-11972, 2006 WL 3834224 (E.D. Mich. 2006), was a lawsuit in which Rep. John Conyers Jr. and others alleged that President George W. Bush violated the United States Constitution by signing a bill that was not passed by the United States Congress.
Nature of claim
John Conyers, a ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, along with 10 other members of Congress, filed a lawsuit on April 28, 2006, at the district court in Detroit{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-04-28-budget-lawsuit_x.htm |title=11 House Members to Sue Over Budget Bill |date=2006-04-28 |accessdate=2008-01-18 |work=USA Today |author=USA Today}} seeking a restraining order (injunctive relief) preventing the execution of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, S. 1932. The plaintiffs also sought a declaration that the bill be declared unconstitutional and not a valid law.
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Outcome
The case was dismissed on November 6, 2006, by federal judge Nancy Garlock Edmunds in Detroit, who cited the representatives' lack of standing to bring this suit.{{cite court |litigants=Conyers v. Bush |reporter=(unreported) |court=E.D. Mich. |date=Nov. 6, 2006 |url=http://www.mied.uscourts.gov/eGov/edmundspdf/Conyers_v_Bush.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630224218/http://www.mied.uscourts.gov/eGov/edmundspdf/Conyers_v_Bush.pdf |archive-date=2007-06-30 }}