Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
“This is the beginning of the legislative process, not the end.” Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | July 28, 2022 Last week, a bipartisan group of Senators, led by Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), proposed legislation to repair two antiquated 19th-century laws that govern how presidential elections work. Both laws are seriously flawed […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | July 21, 2022 The House Jan. 6 hearings have exceeded all expectations. Blockbuster hearing after blockbuster hearing have produced overwhelming evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that former President Donald Trump led a conspiracy to attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election he had clearly lost and that he incited the […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | July 14, 2022 The House Jan. 6th Committee hearings have documented that central to the attempted presidential coup by former President Donald Trump and his chief strategist John Eastman was their plan to exploit a loophole in the Presidential Election Day Act of 1845. The loophole would have allowed a […]
In the past seven days, the country has seen two events of historic significance: the explosive testimony of a young woman with impeccable conservative Republican credentials against former President Donald Trump, and an indefensible Supreme Court decision that took away a constitutional right that had been recognized for 50 years. On Tuesday, a courageous 26-year-old […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | June 23, 2022 He knew. Former President Donald Trump knew he was engaging in illegal actions to overturn the 2020 presidential election that Joe Biden had won. Even if Trump believed he won the election, there was no legal justification for taking the illegal actions he took. Trump’s attempt to […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | June 16, 2022 The first two hearings by the House January 6th Committee already have presented a compelling case that former President Trump attempted to steal the 2020 presidential election. The Committee’s evidence shows that Trump had to have known his claims of voter fraud and miscounted votes were not […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | June 9, 2022 The Jan. 6 House Committee hearings begin tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern and will air live on the broadcast networks, PBS, NPR, and other outlets, including online. This is “Must See TV.” Every American who wants our country to remain a democracy needs to watch. The fact-based hearings are […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | June 2, 2022 The televised hearings of the House Jan. 6 Committee that begin next Thursday will have historical significance in the battle taking place in our country between democracy and autocracy. The House Select Committee is investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol – the first since the […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 19, 2022 Justice Clarence Thomas is a political partisan in a Justice’s robe. Justices come to the Supreme Court with conservative, liberal, or moderate judicial philosophies. Obviously, they also have their own private views of politics and public policy. But, when a Justice openly brings his private views on political […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 12, 2022 Former President Donald Trump has done enormous damage to our political system with his never-ending Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Neither Trump nor anyone else has provided a shred of evidence that voter fraud had any impact on the 2020 presidential […]
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