Press Releases Archive
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump being restarted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and discussed in a new book by one of his former prosecutors, Mark Pomerantz, raises vital issues of both election integrity and accountability, Ambassador Norman Eisen (ret.), E. Danya Perry, and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write in a deep dive published […]
This week, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) gaveled in the first hearing in what he promised will be a crusade against the Biden Administration: “[W]e won’t stop until we get the truth to fix the problem for the American people.” The hearing was supposedly about the “border crisis.” But, the hearing had little to do with […]
This op-ed appeared in Newsweek. Pence Document Case Shows It’s Time for New Protocols By: Norman Eisen, Joshua Stanton, and Fred Wertheimer This week, we learned former Vice President Mike Pence was added to the list of politicians who have improperly handled classified materials. Unless evidence emerges to the contrary, we take Pence at his word that he didn’t […]
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