Democracy 21 Report: A Timeline Of The Senate Filibuster, 1806 – 2021
View And Download This Report As A PDF By: Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21 | December 2021 The United States Senate is facing a […]
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As Democracy Summit Approaches, President Biden Must Make The Freedom To Vote Act His Absolute Priority, D21 Vice President Matt Keller Writes In The Hill
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellAs the White House prepares to host a Summit for Democracy on December 9, President Joe Biden is “failing in his efforts to restore faith in American Democracy at […]
Sue Halpern In The New Yorker: Biden’s Global Democracy Summit Raises An Awkward Question: Can Ours Endure?
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellIn the months since President Joe Biden took office, “the prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably,” Sue Halpern writes today on The New […]
E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: “The Hypocrisy Argument On The Filibuster Is Itself Phony”
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellIn a new op-ed, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. lays out the urgent need to reform the filibuster: “[T]he core reason the filibuster must […]
Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21, Common Cause, & CREW File Amicus Brief Supporting The FEC’s Efforts To Prevent Corruption In Ted Cruz Loan Repayment Case
|Press Releases |Campaign Finance Lawsby Jackie HowellWhen candidates raise funds after an election to repay personal loans to their own campaigns, the risk of corruption is self-evident and voters lose out […]
Analysis: Why The Filibuster Rules Must Be Revised In Order To Protect Voting Rights And Save The Senate
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Civil Rights Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellBy: Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21 The filibuster is again at the center of an ongoing battle in the Senate over civil rights. Since […]
Senate Republicans Block Consideration Of John Lewis Voting Rights Measure – Marking Fourth Time This Year They’ve Prevented Senate Consideration Of Vital Voting Rights Legislation
|Press Releases |Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellStatement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer For the fourth time this year, Senate Republicans have blocked essential voting rights legislation. Today, their obstructionism blocked […]
Recent FEC Ruling That Foreign Interests Can Finance Referendum Campaigns In U.S. Would Be Overturned By Freedom To Vote Act Pending In Senate
|Press Releases |FEC Freedom To Vote Actby Jackie HowellThe Federal Election Commission (FEC) recently ruled that foreign governments, foreign corporations, and other foreign interests can finance referendum campaigns in the United States. This interpretation of […]
D21 President Fred Wertheimer On Sen. Romney’s Disingenuous Case For Protecting The Filibuster Rules
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellStatement Of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) has an op-ed in The Washington Post today in which he makes a disingenuous case for protecting […]
Wertheimer/Eisen Op-Ed: “Two Senators Could Save U.S. Democracy”
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Freedom To Vote Actby Jackie Howell“We hope Senators Manchin and Sinema choose to be on the right side of history. Failing to do so could be fatal to the future […]
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