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Statement Of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer “There is no excuse for taking so long on a case that has such importance to the country.” On March 4, 2024, 25 days after hearing oral argument, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Trump v. Anderson. In that case, the Court ruled favorably for former President […]
In my more than 50 years of working to curb the influence of big money on politics and policy, I have never heard of a case where a presidential candidate asked a group of donors to raise one billion dollars for his campaign, much less to do so in exchange for favorable government policies. Yet that reportedly […]
Democracy 21 applauds the bipartisan effort underway in the Senate to develop public policies to address the dangerous problems posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This important effort is being led by Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), joined by Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Todd Young (R-IN). Also providing important bipartisan leadership are […]
Stacking the deck for Trump means endangering national security. Judge Aileen Cannon seems determined to kill the criminal Mar-a-Lago classified documents case facing former President Donald Trump, Jennifer Rubin writes in a column in The Washington Post.“Her latest delay,” Rubin writes, “follows a series of widely criticized moves revealing her inexperience. Among the most inexplicable: Demanding a debate on […]
It’s been 14 days since the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Trump v. United States, the criminal case brought against former President Donald Trump who is charged with attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. This is arguably the most important criminal case in American history. The case deals with the alleged first attempt at […]
As members of the Supreme Court’s “6-3 conservative majority ponder how and when they will rule on Donald Trump’s absolute immunity claim, they should understand how much they have already done to paint themselves as instruments of the Republican Party and the political right. They have created a crisis moment,” columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. writes […]
A clear-eyed look at the performance of four conservative Justices during the Supreme Court’s oral argument in Trump v. United States last week shows a remarkable lack of interest in former President Trump’s alleged efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election, which is what this case is about. The four Justices – Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil […]
Whether there is timely accountability for the only attempted presidential coup in American history now rests in the hands of nine Supreme Court Justices. The Supreme Court held oral argument this morning in Donald J. Trump v. the United States, a historic case involving the criminal indictment of the former President for his unprecedented attempt to […]
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Donald J. Trump v. United States regarding former President Trump’s request to be granted immunity from federal criminal prosecution for all official acts he took while President. This argument is crucial to the pending 2020 election interference criminal case brought by Special Counsel Jack […]
On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Donald J. Trump v. United States, which addresses the question of whether Trump has presidential immunity for officials acts taken while he was President, which is crucial to this pending 2020 election interference case. The key, Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer writes in an op-ed published today […]
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