Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
President Trump Corrupted the Durham Investigation Today Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer President Trump today plainly corrupted the criminal investigation being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham into the origins of the 2016 Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In an interview with Fox News today, Trump made […]
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the most important documents in American history. It stripped away the artificial barriers erected to prevent African Americans and other people of color from exercising their sacred right to vote. The right to vote is at the heart of our system of representative government and ingrains […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | July 23, 2020 “We will not allow Trump’s brazen authoritarianism, which is now in plain sight, to undermine our democratic norms and steal the election.” President Trump is now moving into full authoritarian mode as he deploys a federal police force to engage in paramiltary actions in cities around the […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | July 16, 2020 “President Trump rode into office on a big lie that he was going to drain the Washington swamp. If Vice President Biden sends him home in November, that will be the first and most important act to actually start draining the swamp in Washington.” President Trump will […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | July 9, 2020 “Trump’s lies in this case, combined with congressional Republican silence about his lies, may come back to haunt both Trump and Republican candidates in November.” According to The Washington Post’s running tally, President Trump made 19,127 false or misleading claims in 1,226 days in office, as of […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | July 2, 2020 “The coming fight for the money to effectively administer the upcoming election is a battle that must be won if we are to prevent chaos in November.” We are approaching crunch time on whether the states and the Postal Service will receive from Congress the essential money […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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