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What in the world was Chief Justice John Roberts thinking when he wrote the Supreme Court’s majority opinion on presidential immunity in Trump v. United States? Just who did he think he was dealing with when he wrote an opinion establishing absolute and presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for former President Donald Trump? Trump had said […]
In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled in Buckley v. Valeo that “contribution ceilings were a necessary legislative concomitant to deal with the reality or appearance of corruption inherent in a system permitting unlimited financial contributions.” [emphasis added] Thus, the Court upheld the limits on campaign contributions to candidates enacted in response to the Watergate scandals. In 2002, Congress banned […]
“Another major factual revelation by Special Counsel Jack Smith, another attempt to discredit him without ever addressing the new facts,” Andrew Weissmann and Ryan Goodman write in an analysis published today on Just Security regarding the 2020 election interference/Jan. 6 case brought by Smith against former President Donald Trump. “But this time,” Weissmann and Goodman […]
“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1785 It’s no […]
When Senator J.D. Vance was asked during Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate if former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he refused to answer. Vance doubled down suggesting the presidential transition was peaceful. Peaceful? Vance has to know that Trump incited that day’s violent attack, urging his followers to go to the Capitol and telling them, […]
For the past four years, former President Donald Trump has been building a cult of election deniers who believe his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. They don’t care that no one has ever presented a shred of credible evidence to support Trump’s blatantly bogus claim. Notwithstanding the lack of […]
Chief Justice John Roberts appears to have sold out the independent third branch of government he leads, by choosing to bend the knee to former President Donald Trump. Roberts has appeared in recent years to lose his leadership of the Supreme Court to the Trump-aligned wing of the Court. Roberts’s response has been to seize […]
Thirteen organizations from across the ideological spectrum, including Democracy 21, have urged Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to publicly reveal information about their top campaign fundraisers before Election Day. The coalition effort was organized by Issue One. Called “bundlers” for the bundles of campaign donation […]
Today’s campaign finance system floods Washington with unprecedented levels of influence-seeking and influence-buying campaign money. It is an unfair and corrupt system. It is also an obscene system where, for example, former President Donald Trump reportedly told top oil executives they should raise $1 billion for him. In return Trump said he would, if elected, immediately reverse […]
In January 2021, two Democrats won Senate runoff elections in Georgia. This flipped the Senate and resulted in an unexpected “trifecta” – Democratic control of the White House, the House, and the Senate. That 2021 trifecta brought an important opportunity and Congress came within two Senate votes of enacting historic democracy reforms, including reforms to […]
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