Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 19, 2022 Justice Clarence Thomas is a political partisan in a Justice’s robe. Justices come to the Supreme Court with conservative, liberal, or moderate judicial philosophies. Obviously, they also have their own private views of politics and public policy. But, when a Justice openly brings his private views on political […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 12, 2022 Former President Donald Trump has done enormous damage to our political system with his never-ending Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Neither Trump nor anyone else has provided a shred of evidence that voter fraud had any impact on the 2020 presidential […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 5, 2022 The leaked draft of the Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito wipes out Roe v. Wade and takes away the constitutional right of women to make their own decisions about their bodies. The draft opinion reverses a super precedent that for a half-century has been repeatedly relied […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 28, 2022 It’s time for former President Trump to face the music. The rule of law is a cornerstone of our democracy. “Nobody is above the law” is a fundamental tenet of our legal system. Trump believes otherwise. Trump’s views about complying with laws were succinctly captured during the […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 21, 2022 In a speech to the House of Commons in 1948,Winston Churchill said that “those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” This warning looms large as we head into the public hearings to be held by the House Jan. 6 Committee in late May […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 14, 2022 As we head into the 2022 congressional elections, the implications of Trump’s Big Lie, the January 6 violent insurrection at the Capitol, and the voter suppression and election sabotage laws that followed, are coming into major play. In early June, the House Jan. 6 Committee is expected […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 7, 2022 The Jan. 6 Committee in the House is investigating the events surrounding the violent insurrection attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and the events leading up to it. The Committee has interviewed hundreds of witnesses, including recently the President’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 31, 2022 Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him was used last year as phony justification for GOP-controlled state legislatures around the country to enact destructive voter suppression laws. These laws are aimed at Black, brown, and other minority voters, urban residents, the elderly, […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 24, 2022 “The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did.” Those deeply powerful words came last month in a letter of resignation from Mark Pomerantz, a lead prosecutor in the Manhattan D.A.’s criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s business practices, obtained […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 17, 2022 The most well-known quote to come out of the 1970s Watergate scandals is, “Follow the money.” While the actual origin of the quote is not clear, its meaning is: To understand the ways of Washington you must look at the impact of money on the actions that are taken. […]
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