Chief Justice John Roberts Bends The Knee To Trump
Chief Justice John Roberts appears to have sold out the independent third branch of government he leads, by choosing to bend the knee to former […]
Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
A Corrupt & Obscene Campaign Finance System
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Elections Campaign Finance Reform Money In Politics Special Interest Moneyby Jackie HowellToday’s campaign finance system floods Washington with unprecedented levels of influence-seeking and influence-buying campaign money. It is an unfair and corrupt system. It is also […]
Can Democrats Get A Trifecta In November And Use It To Enact Democracy Reforms?
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Elections Freedom To Vote Act John R. Lewis Voting Rights Actby Jackie HowellIn January 2021, two Democrats won Senate runoff elections in Georgia. This flipped the Senate and resulted in an unexpected “trifecta” – Democratic control of […]
Buckle Up. The Road To November Will Be A Whirlwind.
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Electionsby Jackie HowellSummer is winding down and, with the close of the Democratic Convention tonight, election season kicks into hyperdrive. With Election Day just 74 days away, […]
“Never Give Up. Never Give In.”
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Democracy Reforms Freedom To Vote Act John R. Lewis Voting Rights Actby Jackie HowellIn the last Congress, the Senate came within two votes of sending historic democracy reform legislation to President Biden for his signature. The bills were blocked when […]
The Trump J6 Case Is Back
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Immunity Jan. 6 Supreme Court Trump Trials TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellThe January 6 criminal case brought against former President Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith is back in federal district court with Judge Tanya […]
A Rogue Supreme Court
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Citizens United Ethics & Accountability Immunity Supreme Courtby Jackie HowellToday’s Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, is likely to go down as one of the worst Supreme Courts in American history. It […]
10 Days That Rocked America
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Elections Kamala Harris Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellIt began on July 13 with the horrifying assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Five days later, on July […]
Judge Cannon Knew Precisely What She Was Doing
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Mar-a-Lago Documents TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellOn Monday, federal district court Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Mar-a-Lago classified documents criminal case facing former President Donald Trump. Cannon did not rule on the merits […]
Chief Justice Roberts Writes SCOTUS’s Most Anti-American, Anti-Democratic Opinion Since Dred Scott
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Immunity Project 2025 Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellIn Trump v. United States, the last opinion of the Supreme Court’s term, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing also for the five other Republican-appointed, conservative Justices, […]
