JD Vance Told a Whopper About Nixon and the Watergate Scandals
By Fred Wertheimer President, Democracy 21 I lived through the Watergate scandals in the early 1970s and played an active lobbying role for the breakthrough […]
Op-Eds Archive
New Fred Wertheimer Piece in the Hill: A Constitutional Convention would be a constitutional crisis — states must say no
|Op Eds |Constitution Constitutional Convention Democracy Reformby Dave WagnerIn his new piece in the Hill, Fred Wertheimer warns that the push for an Article V Constitutional Convention is a coordinated and well-funded campaign […]
An Open Letter Rejecting Presidential Attacks on Nonprofit Organizations
|Op Eds |Constitution Constitutional Convention Democracy Reformby Dave WagnerWe are a coalition of nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations formed to champion causes dear to all Americans. We work in communities across the country to […]
NBC News: In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court ‘s handling of Trump cases
|News, Op Eds, Press Releases |John Roberts Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Dave Wagner“Federal judges are frustrated with the Supreme Court for increasingly overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with little or no explanation, with some worried […]
Federal Judge and U.S. Attorney’s Office Detailed Reasons for Ghislaine Maxwell’s Sex-Crimes Felony Convictions and Her 20-Year Sentence
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Ghislaine Maxwell Jeffrey Epstein TrumpWatchby Dave WagnerBy Fred Wertheimer President, Democracy 21 On December 29, 2021, a federal jury found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of five felony counts, including conspiracy to transport […]
Fred Wertheimer In Slate: “There’s Only One Conclusion to Draw From Trump’s Newfound Leniency for Ghislaine Maxwell”
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Ghislaine Maxwell Jeffrey Epstein TrumpWatchby Terri RitterThe following op-ed by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer was published on Slate: Read on Slate or below: Slate | 8/14/25 There’s Only One Conclusion […]
The Mar-a-Lago Documents Case – Do Trump’s Own Words Convict Him?
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Mar-a-Lago Documents TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellThe publicly known evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case keeps growing, and some of the strongest evidence has come from former President Donald Trump himself, […]
Eisen, Kolb, Wertheimer Op-Ed: The Mar-a-Lago Classified Docs Case Keeps Getting Worse For Trump
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Mar-a-Lago Documents TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellThe potential case the Justice Department could bring against former President Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation “is becoming clearer and potentially more damning […]
Joscelyn, Eisen, & Wertheimer On Just Security: How Trump’s CNN Town Hall Remarks Put Him In Greater Legal Peril For The Jan. 6 Investigations
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Jan. 6 TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellDuring CNN’s town hall on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump made multiple incriminating remarks about his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Tom Joscelyn, Amb. […]
Eisen, Stanton, & Wertheimer Op-Ed On CNN: The Incompetence Of George Santos’s Alleged Crimes
|Op Eds, Press Releases |George Santos House Republicans Kevin McCarthyby Jackie HowellRepresentative George Santos (R-NY) was indicted on Wednesday on 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements to Congress. […]
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