Do 50-year career Congressmen have to follow election laws? For now the answer is yes, but Conyers is working to throw out a simple state law that his campaign couldn’t manage to follow this election cycle: U.S. Rep. John Conyers, No. 2 in seniority in the House of Representatives, lost his appeal Friday to get on the August primary ballot after Michigan election officials found problems with the Democrat’s nominating petitions… A federal judge is expected to rule later Friday on Conyers’ request to throw out a Michigan election law as unconstitutional. Conyers, 85, had appealed to the state after Wayne County officials said there were problems with some people who collected signatures. The circulators weren’t registered to vote or had listed a wrong registration address. That can spoil petitions, under Michigan law, and as a result Conyers lacks the 1,000 signatures necessary to get on the ballot.