House Passage of Statehood for District of Columbia is Great Victory for D.C. Citizens

House Passage of Statehood for District of Columbia is Great Victory for D.C. Citizens Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer House passage today of statehood for the District of Columbia is a great victory for the citizens of D.C. Our nation was born out of the idea that taxation without representation was abhorrent to […]

Restoring the Voting Rights Act, 7 Years After Shelby

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted a core provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.The right of every eligible citizen to vote goes to the heart of our constitutional system of representative government. It is the basis upon which the […]

D21 Sends Letter to Representatives Urging Support for George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020

Enclosed for your information is a letter sent on June 24, 2020 by Democracy 21 to Members of Congress urging their support for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020. Find the full text of the letter below. – June 24, 2020 Dear Representative, Democracy 21 strongly supports the George Floyd Justice in […]

Trump’s Very Bad Week

FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | June 18, 2020 “Trump will no doubt go down as the worst President in U.S. history.” President Trump is having a very bad week. On Monday, Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment, Justice Neil Gorsuch, wrote a landmark decision for the Court’s 6-to-3 majority that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 […]

Election Chaos in Georgia Highlights Voting Needs in November

FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | June 11, 2020 “We are not going to let Trump take our democracy and our constitutional system of representative government away from us. “ The chaotic primary election in Georgia on Tuesday gave us the latest real life example of what we may be facing throughout the country on November […]

D21 Files 6th DOJ Complaint Against AG Barr, This Time for Appointing Former Trump Aide to Lead Criminal Investigation into Obama Administration ‘Unmasking’

Democracy 21 Files Sixth DOJ Complaint Against AG Barr, This Time for Appointing Former Trump White House Aide to Lead Criminal Investigation into Obama Administration ‘Unmasking’ Complaint Says Barr Should Not Have Opened Investigation Just Months Before Presidential Election and Bash Should Not Be Leading the Investigation Democracy 21 filed a complaint today with the […]

An Inflection Point for America

An Inflection Point for America (Fred Wertheimer | June 5, 2020 | Medium) The tragic, senseless, brutal killing of African American George Floyd by a police officer, aided and abetted by three fellow officers, and its aftermath, may well turn out to be an inflection point for America. The killing has awakened the nation to […]