John Roberts’ Historic Failure as Supreme Court Chief Justice, Part 1
Chief Justice John Roberts is smart and skilled. He will be remembered, however, as a historic failure. This is not a claim to make lightly, […]
Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
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 […]
Fred’s Weekly Note Returns July 17
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |by Jackie HowellFred’s Weekly Note and our Wertheimer’s Political Report newsletter are on a short break. Both will return on Thursday, July 17, 2025.
Is John Roberts Bending The Knee To Trump?
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |John Roberts Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellThis note was updated on June 27 to reflect the Supreme Court’s ruling in the birthright citizenship cases. Since January 20, President Donald Trump has […]
America’s Street Huckster
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellThe massive corrupt practices and conflicts of interest of Donald Trump have dishonored, disgraced, degraded, demeaned, debauched, and debased the Office of President of the […]
No Kings Here
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellThis week President Trump sent the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles to control what he preposterously called a “violent occupation.” Sending U.S. troops to […]
Law & Disorder
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Ethics & Accountability Justice Department pardons TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellDonald Trump is treating the presidency as his own personal domain, not as a public trust. This is not new, of course. We saw strong […]
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