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One Year Later, The Battle For H.R. 1 Goes On Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer This coming Sunday, March 8, marks one year since the House passed H.R. 1, historic democracy reform legislation to repair the nation’s broken political system and corrupt campaign finance system. While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 5, 2020 “Our battle for H.R. 1 will be fought for as long as it takes to win.” This coming Sunday, March 8, marks one year since the House passed H.R. 1, historic democracy reform legislation to repair the nation’s broken political system and corrupt campaign finance system. While […]
Senate Republicans Make Partisan Move to Add A Republican Commissioner to Currently-Defunct FEC, Ignore Democratic Vacancy Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Since last September, the Federal Election Commission has had only three Commissioners. It has therefore been unable to take any oversight and enforcement actions, as four Commissioners are necessary to constitute a […]
Democracy 21 Files Fifth Justice Department Complaint Against AG Barr for Repeated Biased Actions on Behalf of President Trump Complaint Charges Barr Has Seriously Compromised the Integrity and Credibility Of The Justice Department As An Independent, Nonpartisan Guardian Of The Rights And Protections Of All Americans Democracy 21 filed a complaint today with the Office […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | FEBRUARY 27, 2020 “Speak up, Chief Justice Roberts, and defend your fellow Justices, the judiciary and our constitutional system of checks and balances. The Founders saw a Trump coming. They and their system need defending against our authoritarian President.” Apparently, it just isn’t enough for President Trump to attack Congress, […]
Trump’s Vision of the Presidency: Absolute Power, No Accountability Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer House and Senate Republicans, joined by Attorney General William Barr, have paved the way for President Trump to exercise his vision of absolute Presidential power without accountability for his actions. This is the approach we fought a revolution to […]
Enclosed for your information is a piece by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer entitled, “Trump’s $580,600 Per Couple Fundraiser Tomorrow is the Direct Result of the Supreme Court’s Decision in McCutcheon v. FEC that was ‘Divorced from Reality’” which was published on Medium on February 14, 2020. Read the full article here or below. Trump’s […]
Trump Tests The Constitution And Challenges Our Founders. The Constitution Must And Will Prevail. Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer President Trump showed again this week that he believes he has dictatorial powers. In the course of two days, Trump improperly interfered in the Executive and Judicial branches of our government. This followed his […]
Democracy 21 Documents Attorney General Barr’s Repeated Abuses of Office, Calls for House and DOJ Investigations of Barr In an apparently unprecedented act, the sentencing recommendation submitted by the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the case of Roger Stone was withdrawn and changed by […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | FEBRUARY 6, 2020 “Senate Republicans said yesterday that Trump is above the law and that we are a nation of men and women, not laws.” The blind loyalty shown by Republican Senators, with the exception of Senator Mitt Romney, in acquitting President Trump yesterday tells us all that Senate Republicans […]
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