“The current congressional lame duck session may be one of the most consequential,” Albert Hunt writes in an op-ed published yesterday in The Hill. “On the table are a long-term extension of the debt ceiling, aid to Ukraine, fiscal and tax matters, immigration and — at the top of the list — an election reform measure.” […]
“Some people have argued against the need for, or timing of, the appointment of a special counsel in the federal investigations of former President Donald Trump. We welcome the announcement of veteran federal prosecutor Jack Smith in that role,” according to a new op-ed on Just Security, by the authors of an extensively researched report that assesses the potential […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | November 17, 2022 President Joe Biden said before last week’s election that democracy was on the ballot. It was and democracy won. The clearest and most important example of this involved the Republican election deniers running for Secretary of State. As the officials responsible for state elections, they would have been […]
A strong basis exists for the Justice Department to indict former President Donald Trump for crimes dealing with the national security information removed from the White House and retained at Mar-a-Lago, according to a new report, “Mar-a-Lago Prosecution Memo,” published today by Just Security. The report, based on publicly available information, was crafted as a “model […]
A new report from the Brookings Institution, released today, considers the relevant facts and context of the push by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. The Brookings report asserts that Trump’s post-election conduct in Georgia leaves him at substantial risk of criminal prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia. A criminal […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | November 10, 2022 The Department of Justice for some time has been conducting criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump’s activities. These investigations include whether Trump led a conspiracy to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and whether he illegally took top secret and other government documents […]
The following op-ed by Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.) and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer was published today on Slate. Slate | 11/8/2022 The Fate of the Midterms Could Rest in a Pennsylvania Courtroom By: Norman L. Eisen and Fred Wertheimer Under the radar, a state court issued an opinion last week that could prove […]
There is a key misconception about the potential impact of an upcoming Supreme Court case and the “independent state legislature theory,” Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer writes in an op-ed published on Brookings. The misconception, Wertheimer writes, is this: “[I]f the ‘independent state legislature theory’ is adopted by the Supreme Court in the case of Moore v. […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | November 3, 2022 The Trump effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election was an unprecedented attack on our democracy that continues to this day with the election deniers’ movement. The threat is real and extremely dangerous. Millions of Americas have died to protect our country and our democracy, which holds […]
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