Press Releases Archive

New “Criminal Tracker” Compiles Evidence Of Possible Criminal Activities By Trump In His Coup Attempt To Overturn 2020 Election

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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 […]

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Jan. 6 Live Hearing: Where To Watch

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“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, […]

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D21, Eisen, Common Cause: Supreme Court Must Adopt Code Of Conduct And Strengthen Recusal Procedures

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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 […]

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New Brookings Report “Trump On Trial” Is An Essential Companion To The Jan. 6 Hearings And The Question Of Criminality

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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 […]

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E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: The Jan. 6 Committee Has A Narrow But Priceless Opening

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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 […]

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The Sustaining Our Democracy Act Is Essential Legislation To Protect The Integrity Of Our Elections And Democracy

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Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer One of the greatest dangers facing our democracy today is the systematic poisoning of the integrity of our elections by former President Trump and the unrelenting spread of his Big Lie in our nation. This has led to millions of Americans doubting the honesty of our elections, despite […]

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LISTEN: D21 President Fred Wertheimer On Supreme Court Siding With Sen. Ted Cruz In Campaign Finance Case

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  “The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority sided with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday, ruling that a federal ban on outsiders repaying a candidate’s campaign loan to himself after an election violates the constitutional guarantee of free speech,” National Public Radio correspondent Nina Totenberg reported on Monday. The decision, Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer told NPR, […]

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More Than 120 Civil Rights And Democracy Groups Call On Social Media Giants To Act Immediately To Combat Election Disinformation Ahead Of Midterms

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More than 120 civil rights, democracy, and public interest groups, including Democracy 21, called on the major social media companies to combat and curb election disinformation on their platforms ahead of this year’s midterm elections. In a May 12 letter to the CEOs of Meta (Facebook), Twitter, YouTube, Snap, Instagram, TikTok, and Alphabet (Google), the groups urged […]

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Trump’s Next Presidential Coup Attempt Could Work Unless Existing Laws Are Repaired, D21 President Fred Wertheimer Warns In New Just Security Op-Ed

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If Donald Trump is nominated again in 2024, “another attempt at a Trump presidential coup is far more likely to succeed – unless flawed laws, enacted in 1845 and 1887 and still on the books today, are repaired,” Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer warns in a new op-ed published today by Just Security. While most of […]

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Sen. Manchin Apparently Forgot That He Played A Key Role In Killing Legislation To Protect Voting Rights

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Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has demonstrated that we need a new word for “chutzpah.” Because “chutzpah” does not even begin to capture the extent of Senator Manchin’s gall in expressing his “concerns” during a Senate hearing last week that there is “a lot of work to do” to […]

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