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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 […]
As the country faces a potential government shutdown at the end of September, Senators appear to be working in a bipartisan way to avoid the shutdown and fund the government for this fiscal year. But, in the House, it’s a completely different story. Bipartisanship is dead. It wasn’t always like this. For decades, in working […]
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 […]
Last year, Democracy 21 Education Fund established the Democracy Legal Strike Force as a project of the organization to help hold accountable those who attacked our democracy in the 2020 presidential election, combat the still-thriving election deniers’ movement, and work to protect the integrity of our elections in 2024 and beyond. Since its launch, the […]
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 […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | August 10, 2023 Ever since they took control of the House in January, MAGA Republicans have been hunting President Joe Biden. House Republicans – led by beleaguered House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and key members of the extremist “Freedom Caucus” – are expected to move forward with an impeachment proceeding against […]
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 […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | August 3, 2023 Jeffrey Clark is presumed to be “Co-Conspirator 4” in the indictment of former President Donald Trump filed this week. Clark will go down as a footnote in history, but had Trump’s scheme to overturn the election succeeded, he might have changed history. In 2020, Clark was serving […]
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