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Democracy 21 Files Complaint with DOJ Inspector General Calling For An Investigation of AG Barr and His Role in the Ukraine Affair Democracy 21 filed a complaint today with Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz calling on the IG to investigate Attorney General William Barr’s activities relating to the recent whistleblower complaint concerning President […]
House Judiciary Committee Adopts Resolution that Makes Clear the Committee is Conducting an Impeachment Inquiry Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer There has been some confusion raised about the investigation being conducted by the House Judiciary Committee. Earlier this year, on March 4, the House Judiciary Committee opened an investigation “into the alleged obstruction of […]
With One Resignation, Federal Election Commission Regresses From Dysfunctional To Nonfunctional Statement of Democracy 21 Counsel Donald Simon With Commissioner Matthew Petersen’s resignation from the Federal Election Commission announced today, the FEC will regress from a dysfunctional agency to one that, as a practical matter, ceases to function at all. Of the six seats on […]
President Trump’s comment yesterday that he sees nothing wrong with accepting opposition research from a foreign country seeking to influence our elections, shocking as it is, should come as no surprise to anyone.Trump made his position on this clear during the 2016 presidential campaign when he publicly called on Russia to find and make available […]
In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) today, national groups that worked to protect the Mueller investigation urged a number of House Committees to hold hearings to educate the American people on the findings of the Mueller report. The groups included Action Group Network, American Oversight, Center for American Progress, Center for […]
Democracy 21 sent a letter today to the four Commissioners of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) urging them to vote against a proposed new rule that would “create an entirely new and unauthorized category of spending from political party ‘building fund’ accounts which are funded by massive contributions from individuals of up to $213,000 […]
Democracy 21 Joins More Than 100 Groups To Call On 2020 Presidential Candidates To Make Democracy Reforms First Priority In 2021 If Elected Democracy 21 joined with over 100 good government, civil rights, environmental, religious, and other groups from the Declaration for American Democracy in sending a letter to all prospective 2020 presidential candidates today […]
Democracy 21 Calls on DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility to Ensure Attorney General Barr is Recused on Bias Grounds from Overseeing 14 Active Cases Stemming from Mueller Investigation In a letter sent today to the Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer wrote that Attorney General William Barr “must recuse […]
Mueller Report Opens Door For Civil Enforcement By Federal Election Commission A failure by the FEC to enforce the law here would be an abdication of its statutory responsibility and would set a terrible precedent, according to Democracy 21 On April 30, 2019, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Common Cause, and Democracy 21 filed a supplement to a Federal […]
Attorney General William Barr has been acting as defense attorney for President Trump ever since he sent his memo as a private citizen to the Justice Department in June 2018 attacking Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into obstruction of justice as “fatally misconceived.” Given that Barr had prejudged the Mueller investigation as improper, as soon as he […]
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