Press Releases Archive
In a Truth Social post on November 30, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Kash Patel to be the director of the FBI. Last week, current FBI Director Christopher Wray, appointed by Trump in 2017 to a 10-year term, announced he would step down before Trump is sworn into office. Historian and journalist Garrett Graff […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer This past weekend, President-elect Donald Trump said in an NBC “Meet the Press” interview that “everybody” on the House January 6 Committee “should go to jail.” This is an example of Trump’s presidential revenge and retribution tour. It is the same kind of approach used by dictators like […]
Seventy national civil rights and pro-democracy organizations, including Democracy 21, sent a joint letter to Senators on December 4, urging them to uphold the Senate’s critical constitutional responsibility to advise and consent on presidential nominations to the executive and judicial branches. The letter comes as President-elect Donald Trump is urging incoming Republican Senate leadership to […]
“Another major factual revelation by Special Counsel Jack Smith, another attempt to discredit him without ever addressing the new facts,” Andrew Weissmann and Ryan Goodman write in an analysis published today on Just Security regarding the 2020 election interference/Jan. 6 case brought by Smith against former President Donald Trump. “But this time,” Weissmann and Goodman […]
Thirteen organizations from across the ideological spectrum, including Democracy 21, have urged Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to publicly reveal information about their top campaign fundraisers before Election Day. The coalition effort was organized by Issue One. Called “bundlers” for the bundles of campaign donation […]
In January 2021, two Democrats won Senate runoff elections in Georgia. This flipped the Senate and resulted in an unexpected “trifecta” – Democratic control of the White House, the House, and the Senate. While a Democratic trifecta this November would be difficult, it is possible, Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer writes in an op-ed published today […]
Statement Of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer July 17, 2024 marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of civil rights champion and national icon Representative John Lewis. In nearly 100 communities across the nation, there will be commemorations of his life and candlelight vigils, as well as demands for Congress to pass the John R. […]
By: Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21 This week, Chief Justice John Roberts and his band of five other Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justices restored the king to the top of our government. Our nation’s Founders fought a revolution to help ensure our nation would be forever free from the clutches of an unrestrained monarch. The Founders […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer “Our democracy has been dangerously harmed by its misguided decision.” When the Supreme Court, last December, following a federal district court decision in United States v. Trump, rejected the request of Special Counsel Jack Smith to consider former President Donald Trump’s immunity claim for direct review on an […]
“If money is buying influence and results over government policies, then most Americans are shut out, because the campaign finance system is dominated by people who are putting up very large sums of money.” – D21 President Fred Wertheimer There’s a corner of the 1970s Watergate scandal with far-reaching impact, according to National Public Radio’s Planet Money in […]
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