Press Releases Archive
Democracy 21 applauds the bipartisan effort underway in the Senate to develop public policies to address the dangerous problems posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This important effort is being led by Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), joined by Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Todd Young (R-IN). Also providing important bipartisan leadership are […]
Stacking the deck for Trump means endangering national security. Judge Aileen Cannon seems determined to kill the criminal Mar-a-Lago classified documents case facing former President Donald Trump, Jennifer Rubin writes in a column in The Washington Post.“Her latest delay,” Rubin writes, “follows a series of widely criticized moves revealing her inexperience. Among the most inexplicable: Demanding a debate on […]
As members of the Supreme Court’s “6-3 conservative majority ponder how and when they will rule on Donald Trump’s absolute immunity claim, they should understand how much they have already done to paint themselves as instruments of the Republican Party and the political right. They have created a crisis moment,” columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. writes […]
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Donald J. Trump v. United States regarding former President Trump’s request to be granted immunity from federal criminal prosecution for all official acts he took while President. This argument is crucial to the pending 2020 election interference criminal case brought by Special Counsel Jack […]
On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Donald J. Trump v. United States, which addresses the question of whether Trump has presidential immunity for officials acts taken while he was President, which is crucial to this pending 2020 election interference case. The key, Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer writes in an op-ed published today […]
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer appeared this week on Politics War Room with James Carville and Al Hunt discussing the latest developments in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York. Wertheimer also discusses the other Trump criminal cases — including ongoing delays in the other cases, next week’s presidential immunity argument in the […]
“The alleged facts presented by the Manhattan D.A.’s office make clear – this is a case about illegally influencing the 2016 presidential election, not just about ‘hush money.’” – D21 President Fred Wertheimer On Monday, April 15, the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump began in Manhattan. The People of New York v. Donald […]
In an amicus brief filed Monday with the Supreme Court, 13 former prosecutors, elected officials, other government officials, and constitutional lawyers, including individuals appointed in the Nixon, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Trump Administrations, urged the Supreme Court to reject former President Donald Trump’s request to be granted immunity from federal criminal […]
“States and municipalities aren’t waiting for Congress to lead on limiting big money in politics,” Democracy 21 advisor Matt Keller and Christine Wood, co-director of the Declaration for American Democracy Coalition, write in an op-ed published in The Hill. “All in all, 14 states and more than 20 localities provide the option for candidates to take advantage […]
Former President Donald Trump has made the Jan. 6 defendants a key part of his 2024 campaign, promising that one of his “first acts” in office if reelected, would be to free the “January 6 hostages,” as he calls the defendants. As of March 2024, the D.C. Department of Corrections had 29 Jan. 6 inmates in […]
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