The Abuser, Part III: Autocrats Prosecute Opponents, Trump Fits Right In
If he talks like an autocrat and acts like an autocrat, he’s an autocrat. A common characteristic of autocrats is prosecuting their political opponents. Russia under […]
Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
The Abuser, Part II: A Lawless Life
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |by Dave Wagner(See Part I here.) No President of the United States has ever had anything like Donald Trump’s track record with the law. He is, put […]
The Supreme Court Majority Is Functioning as a Political Arm of Trump
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Dave WagnerThe Republican-appointed majority of the Supreme Court is playing a shell game with the American people. In the guise of making procedural decisions on cases […]
THE Abuser, Part 1
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |TrumpWatchby Dave Wagner“Abuser” is defined in Cambridge Dictionary as “someone who treats another person in a cruel, violent or unfair way.” “Abuse” is defined in Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a […]
John Roberts’ Historic Failure as Supreme Court Chief Justice, Part II
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Democracy Reforms John Roberts Supreme Courtby Dave WagnerAs I wrote in last week’s Note, “Roberts has taken the lead in writing a series of opinions that have destroyed essential rules governing our […]
John Roberts’ Historic Failure as Supreme Court Chief Justice, Part 1
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Democracy Reforms John Roberts Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Dave WagnerChief Justice John Roberts is smart and skilled. He will be remembered, however, as a historic failure. This is not a claim to make lightly, […]
Meet the Faux King, the Successor to “Mad King” George III
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Campaign Finance Reform Democracy Reforms Public Financing TrumpWatchby Dave WagnerIf you doubt that President Trump considers himself beyond reproach, just note two recent Trump declarations. On August 22, Trump proclaimed (falsely), “I am actually […]
Americans Have Never Accepted Corruption And Will Not Now
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Campaign Finance Reform Democracy Reforms Public Financing TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellThe Robber Baron era of the late 19th century. The Watergate scandals of the 1970s. The soft money influence-buying scandals of the 1990s. All horrendous […]
A Vicious, Vengeful, Vindictive, Volatile President
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |TrumpWatchby Jackie Howell“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” English politician and historian Lord Acton wrote in 1887. Almost a century and a half later, […]
The Chief Justice, The Roberts Six, & The Path To Tyranny
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |John Roberts Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellIn 1788, James Madison wrote in The Federalist Paper, No: 47: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of […]
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