Press Releases Archive

UPDATED! “Criminal Evidence Tracker, 3rd Edition”

  UPDATED “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, Has Been Updated With New Evidence Revealed In The First Three Hearings Of The Jan. 6 Committee  A new Criminal Evidence Tracker, published in Just […]

UPDATED! “Criminal Tracker: 2nd Edition” Compiles Evidence Of Possible Criminal Activities By Trump In His Coup Attempt To Overturn 2020 Election

  New! UPDATED “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, Has Been Updated With New Evidence Revealed In The Monday, June 13 Hearing Of The Jan. 6 Committee  A new Criminal Evidence Tracker, […]

Op-Ed: The Jan. 6 Committee Is Methodically Building The Case For A Criminal Conspiracy

Op-Ed: The Jan. 6 Committee Is Methodically Building The Case For A Criminal Conspiracy Former Amb. Norman Eisen, CREW’s Noah Bookbinder, And Democracy 21’s Fred Wertheimer Recap The Important Developments In Monday’s Hearing The Jan. 6th Committee hearing on Monday was a “deep dive” that “revealed Trump’s choice to disregard the truth and the law,” […]

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

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 […]

Jan. 6 Live Hearing: Where To Watch

“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, […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

  “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, […]