Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
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 […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 28, 2020 “Eligible voters should not have to choose between their votes and their lives.” While President Trump rants and raves, falsely, that voting by mail means widespread fraud and will result in a rigged presidential election, there are signs Congress may be getting ready to send the states […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 21, 2020 “The protections needed for our system of representative government are clear. We must ensure that safe and secure elections take place in every state in the union.” President Trump’s latest attacks on voting by mail reveal in stark terms his plans for the November presidential election. Trump’s […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 14, 2020 “These funds are needed now to allow states to begin all the operational steps that are necessary to be ready for the election.” The House is currently scheduled to vote tomorrow on the next stimulus relief package, the HEROES Act, which provides more than $3 trillion to […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 7, 2020 “It is essential to win this fight now, as time is running out for the states to be able to use the funding effectively in advance of the November election.” The fight over providing money for the states to run their November elections is now underway in […]
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