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As Capitol Hill investigators who have worked for both parties, Paul Michel, Tom Joscelyn, and Norm Eisen see Rep. Jim Jordan’s far-right snipe hunt as a mockery. The efforts of Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) subcommittee hunting for “whistleblowers” on the supposed “weaponization” of government have so far have been a bust, Paul Michel, Tom Joscelyn, […]
“Tucker Carlson tried to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021, and utterly failed,” Tom Joscelyn writes in a powerful op-ed published on POLITICO. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave the Fox News host exclusive media access to more than 40,000 hours of U.S. Capitol Police security footage. Last week Carlson began airing cherry-picked portions of the video on […]
“Having tried and failed to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump’s allies are now attempting to interfere with the ongoing grand jury investigation into that earlier misconduct,” Ambassador Norman Eisen (ret.) and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write in an op-ed published today on Slate. The Republican-led Georgia House approved a bill this week that […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 9 , 2023 Dominion Voting Systems has provided a public service for the American people. As a result of its pending defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Dominion has laid bare the extraordinary con game that Fox carried out in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and that continues today. Fox elevated and […]
Statement Of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer We are deeply saddened by the passing today of Common Cause President Karen Hobert Flynn. Karen also served as a member of the Democracy 21 board of directors. Karen was an extraordinary individual, a deeply committed person, and a uniquely skilled, tough-minded, and powerful leader in the […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 2, 2023 Kevin McCarthy got the votes he needed to become House Speaker in January by giving the extremist wing of House Republicans pretty much everything they wanted. In doing so, he empowered the most extreme of these House Republicans, including Representatives Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, James Comer, Marjorie […]
Emily Kohrs, the Georgia special grand jury foreperson in the Trump investigation who made the media rounds this week “won’t win any prizes for grand jury foreperson etiquette. Her display has been unseemly, to say the least. It has violated good taste – but not the law,” Ambassador Norm Eisen (ret.) and Democracy 21 President […]
On Thursday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing on whether Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), whose activities are being investigated as part of the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 criminal investigation, is protected by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause. Perry played an outsized role in the attempted interference in the 2020 presidential election and the court […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 23, 2023 The Trump-led insurrection that culminated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol did not end with the certification of Joe Biden as President. Welcome to The Insurrection: Part II. The goal is the same – ensure that former President Donald Trump or a Trump-like candidate becomes […]
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today reintroduced the DISCLOSE Act to continue his decade-long effort to end secret contributions, or “dark money,” from being spent in federal elections. The Act was first introduced in 2010 by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Representative Chris van Hollen (D-MD) and has been introduced and advocated by Senator Whitehouse in […]
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