Slow Walking For Trump
For six months now, the Supreme Court, led by six Republican-appointed Justices, has been slow walking a decision on former President Donald Trump’s frivolous claim […]
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Trump’s Election Deniers’ Movement — Lies, Attacks, And Chaos
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Elections Election Deniers TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellFormer President Donald Trump told a lot of lies while in office – some 30,573 false or misleading statements, according to one count. Perhaps his biggest […]
D21 Endorses Government By The People Act, Which Would Create An Innovative Way To Finance Campaigns And Lessen The Big-Money Stranglehold On Elections
|Press Releases |Campaign Finance Reform Money In Politics Small Donor Matching Systemby Jackie HowellRepresentative John Sarbanes (D-MD), joined by Representatives Joe Neguse (D-CO), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), and Chellie Pingree (D-ME), recently reintroduced the Government By The People Act, which […]
From The Watergate Era’s “Suitcases Filled With Cash” To Today’s Billions In Secret Campaign Money
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Campaign Finance Reform Citizens United Watergateby Jackie HowellThis week, in lieu of a Fred Note, here’s a “Fred Listen”: “If money is buying influence and results over government policies, then most Americans are […]
Trump, A Jury Of His Peers, And The Roberts Court
|Press Releases |Citizens United gerrymandering Supreme Court TrumpWatch Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellIn an op-ed published Monday on Medium, Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer discusses last week’s conviction in New York of former President Donald Trump on all […]
The Roberts Court And The Systematic Dismantling Of Our Political System
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Citizens United gerrymandering Supreme Court Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellThe Supreme Court, controlled by a Republican-appointed majority, has played a seminal role in gravely damaging our political system and our democracy. The Court majority […]
SCOTUS’s Grave Disservice To The American People & Rule Of Law
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Immunity Supreme Court Trump Trials TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellFor five months, the Supreme Court has been thwarting the trial in United States v. Trump, likely the most important criminal trial in American history and […]
The Supreme Court Fails Country In Its Inexplicable Failure To Issue Timely Opinion On Trump Immunity
|Press Releases |Immunity Supreme Court Trump Trials TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellStatement Of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer “There is no excuse for taking so long on a case that has such importance to the country.” […]
The Political $ Tsunami
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Elections Campaign Finance Reform Citizens United TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellIn my more than 50 years of working to curb the influence of big money on politics and policy, I have never heard of a […]
D21 President Fred Wertheimer On Bipartisan Efforts In The Senate To Address The Problems Posed By AI
|Press Releases |AI Election Integrityby Jackie HowellDemocracy 21 applauds the bipartisan effort underway in the Senate to develop public policies to address the dangerous problems posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This […]
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