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New! UPDATED “Criminal Tracker” Compiles Evidence Of Possible Criminal Activities By Trump In His Coup Attempt To Overturn 2020 Election The Tracker, prepared by former Amb. Norman Eisen, CREW, And Democracy 21, Has Been Updated With New Evidence Revealed In The Monday, June 13 Hearing Of The Jan. 6 Committee A new Criminal Evidence Tracker, […]
Op-Ed: The Jan. 6 Committee Is Methodically Building The Case For A Criminal Conspiracy Former Amb. Norman Eisen, CREW’s Noah Bookbinder, And Democracy 21’s Fred Wertheimer Recap The Important Developments In Monday’s Hearing The Jan. 6th Committee hearing on Monday was a “deep dive” that “revealed Trump’s choice to disregard the truth and the law,” […]
New “Criminal Tracker” Compiles Evidence Of Possible Criminal Activities By Trump In His Coup Attempt To Overturn 2020 Election The Tracker, prepared by former Amb. Norman Eisen, CREW, And Democracy 21, Will Be Updated With Any New Evidence After Each Jan. 6 Committee Hearing A new Criminal Evidence Tracker, published today in Just Security, examines the evidence of […]
“This is deadly serious. This is American democracy. This story deserves more attention. It’s a primetime story, but it’s not a one-and-done special movie. This is real life. This is democracy under the microscope.” – Robert Costa, Investigative Reporter, CBS News Thursday, June 9. The hearing begins at 8 p.m. Eastern ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | June 9, 2022 The Jan. 6 House Committee hearings begin tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern and will air live on the broadcast networks, PBS, NPR, and other outlets, including online. This is “Must See TV.” Every American who wants our country to remain a democracy needs to watch. The fact-based hearings are […]
Facing a crisis from the loss of public confidence, the Supreme Court must adopt a Code of Conduct and strengthen its internal procedures for applying conflict-of-interest standards for a Justice to recuse from cases pending before the Court, three government watchdogs wrote in letters sent today to Chief Justice John Roberts, and to Senate Judiciary […]
With the House Jan. 6 Committee about to launch a series of landmark hearings beginning this Thursday, Brookings has published the in-depth report: Trump on Trial: A Guide to the January 6 Committee Hearings and the Question of Criminality, a comprehensive guide to the proceedings. The 98-page report was authored by Norman Eisen, Donald Ayer, Joshua Perry, Noah […]
E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: The Jan. 6 Committee Has A Narrow But Priceless Opening “The task before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol this week is to demonstrate that day’s viciousness was not some spontaneous outbreak of mayhem but an organized, radical, and dangerous assault on […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | June 2, 2022 The televised hearings of the House Jan. 6 Committee that begin next Thursday will have historical significance in the battle taking place in our country between democracy and autocracy. The House Select Committee is investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol – the first since the […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 19, 2022 Justice Clarence Thomas is a political partisan in a Justice’s robe. Justices come to the Supreme Court with conservative, liberal, or moderate judicial philosophies. Obviously, they also have their own private views of politics and public policy. But, when a Justice openly brings his private views on political […]
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