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When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg earlier this year charged former President Donald Trump with falsifying New York business records in the hush money case, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Trump ally and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, ran interference, attempting to investigate and intimidate the prosecutors. Now that Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis has charged the former President with […]
On Monday, August 28, at 10:00 AM EDT, federal district court Judge Steve C. Jones will hold an evidentiary hearing to evaluate a filing by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to remove his case in the Georgia 2020 presidential election interference case from state court to federal court. Meadows is one of 19 defendants […]
A group of eight prominent judges and attorneys who served as high-level appointees in Republican Administrations submitted an amicus brief on Wednesday night in the U.S. District Court For The Northern District Of Georgia, Atlanta division, opposing Mark Meadows’s and Jeffrey Clark’s efforts to remove to federal court the 2020 presidential election interference case brought in Fulton County by District Attorney Fani […]
The following op-ed, by Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.) and Amy Lee Copeland, a criminal defense and appellate attorney in Savannah, Georgia, appeared in The New York Times on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. Read online or below. ________________________ The New York Times | 8/15/2023 Why the Fani Willis Prosecution of Donald Trump Is Indispensable By Norman Eisen and Amy Lee Copeland Mr. […]
A group of 11 prominent judges and attorneys who served as high-level appointees by Republican Administrations submitted a proposed amicus brief today to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia supporting the government’s proposal for a speedy trial in the election interference and January 6 case against former President Donald Trump. The proposed brief was […]
United States vs. Donald J. Trump, the case involving the former President’s alleged 2020 election interference and exploitation of the January 6 insurrection, “will be the most anticipated trial in this country’s history. But the when is as important as the what. It is essential that this case go to the head of the queue,” Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), […]
This week, former President Donald Trump’s co-lead defense counsel John Lauro laid out a five-part structure of what is expected to be Trump’s defense in the case brought this week by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Trump’s expected defense “is not to be taken lightly – even though, after much drama, we expect all five elements […]
This week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election “is a watershed episode in the history of American democracy,” Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.), Joshua Kolb, and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write in an op-ed on MSNBC. “It is a sobering moment, but also one that inspires confidence that our […]
This fact sheet was prepared by and is being distributed by Democracy 21 Education Fund. _______________________ Read the indictment: United States of America v. Donald J. Trump 1. According to the indictment, former President Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and proceeded with an illegal attempt to hold onto power through […]
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer joins Background Briefing with Ian Masters to discuss new developments in Arizona – “Ground Zero for the election deniers movement” – Georgia, and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s scheme to overthrow the 2020 election. “This is a very dangerous moment in American history,” Wertheimer says. And, Wertheimer warns, […]
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