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Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Democracy 21 applauds the House of Representatives and the Representatives who voted today to pass the Presidential Election Reform Act that will close dangerous loopholes in our presidential election laws. We especially applaud the commitment and hard work of the legislation’s main sponsors, Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and […]
Democracy 21 today strongly urged House Members to vote for H.R. 8873, the Presidential Election Reform Act (PERA), introduced by Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Liz Cheney (R-WY). The legislation is expected to come to the House floor on Wednesday. This legislation provides for essential reforms to two antiquated 19th-century laws that govern the presidential […]
Democracy 21 today strongly urged the Senate to vote to invoke cloture and support enactment of S. 4822, the DISCLOSE Act, when it comes to the floor this week. The DISCLOSE Act would require 501(c)(4) dark money groups which spend money in federal elections to promptly disclose donors who have given $10,000 or more during […]
The District Court in Florida erred in its decision granting a special master in the Mar-a-Lago documents case and the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit should allow the Government full access to the classified documents retrieved from Mar-a-Lago for its criminal investigation, according to an amicus brief filed last night supporting the Government’s emergency motion. Further, […]
The DOJ strategy means “the most legally odious and dangerous aspects of the court’s order can be immediately challenged and hopefully quickly overturned.” On Thursday, the Justice Department announced it would appeal Judge Aileen Cannon’s order blocking criminal investigators from using the classified documents seized last month from former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago […]
Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon granted former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to review the documents seized at the court-approved search of Mar-a-Lago last month. This, Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.) and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write today in Slate, “was in some ways not a surprise. … though, we […]
Regardless of one’s political views, it is clear that there is no legal support for former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to oversee a review of the evidence seized by the Justice Department in its court-appointed search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, according to an amicus brief filed on Tuesday in the U.S. […]
“Given how close former President Trump came to overturning the 2020 election, there is no room for error in the reform legislation.” – D21 President Fred Wertheimer The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 (ECRA), which would reform two antiquated 19th-century laws that govern the presidential election process, “is important and necessary reform,” but there […]
View Democracy 21’s testimony in a PDF Testimony of Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21 On Reforming the Electoral Count Act Submitted to Senate Rules Committee Hearing On “The Electoral Count Act: The Need For Reform” August 3, 2022 Chairwoman Klobuchar, Ranking Member Blunt, and members of the Senate Rules Committee, Democracy 21 […]
Congress has an opportunity to finally fix the flawed Presidential Election Day Act of 1845 and the Electoral Count Act of 1887. It can’t fail. Former President Donald Trump’s “plot to steal the 2020 presidential election was eye-opening. Congress must act now to ensure that any future attempt to steal the presidency does not succeed […]
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