Tag Archive for: 2020 Election

Eisen/Stanton/Wertheimer On MSNBC: Jim Jordan Is Abusing His Power. Fani Willis Should Call His Bluff.

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg earlier this year charged former President Donald Trump with falsifying New York business records in the hush money case, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Trump ally and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, ran interference, attempting to investigate and intimidate the prosecutors. Now that Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis has charged the former President with […]

Shaub/Eisen/Kolb in Just Security: The Hatch Act Bars Meadows’s Removal Bid

On Monday, August 28, at 10:00 AM EDT, federal district court Judge Steve C. Jones will hold an evidentiary hearing to evaluate a filing by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to remove his case in the Georgia 2020 presidential election interference case from state court to federal court. Meadows is one of 19 defendants […]

Prominent Former Judges & Officials In GOP Administrations Submit Brief Opposing Meadows, Clark Removal Of Georgia Criminal Case

A group of eight prominent judges and attorneys who served as high-level appointees in Republican Administrations submitted an amicus brief on Wednesday night in the U.S. District Court For The Northern District Of Georgia, Atlanta division, opposing Mark Meadows’s and Jeffrey Clark’s efforts to remove to federal court the 2020 presidential election interference case brought in Fulton County by District Attorney Fani […]

The Democracy Legal Strike Force

Last year, Democracy 21 Education Fund established the Democracy Legal Strike Force as a project of the organization to help hold accountable those who attacked our democracy in the 2020 presidential election, combat the still-thriving election deniers’ movement, and work to protect the integrity of our elections in 2024 and beyond. Since its launch, the […]

Eisen/Copeland In The New York Times: Why the Fani Willis Prosecution of Donald Trump Is Indispensable

The following op-ed, by Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.) and Amy Lee Copeland, a criminal defense and appellate attorney in Savannah, Georgia, appeared in The New York Times on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. Read online or below. ________________________ The New York Times  |  8/15/2023 Why the Fani Willis Prosecution of Donald Trump Is Indispensable By Norman Eisen and Amy Lee Copeland Mr. […]

11 Prominent Judges And Attorneys Who Served As High-Level Appointees In GOP Administrations Submit Proposed Amicus Brief In Support Of Government’s Request For Speedy Trial In Trump 2020 Election Interference Case

A group of 11 prominent judges and attorneys who served as high-level appointees by Republican Administrations submitted a proposed amicus brief today to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia supporting the government’s proposal for a speedy trial in the election interference and January 6 case against former President Donald Trump. The proposed brief was […]

Eisen, Stanton, Watt Op-Ed: A New Clue In The Fani Willis Investigation In Georgia

“This is just the latest example of lawyers tied to the Trump probes being accused of potential wrongdoing.” Ambassador Norman Eisen (ret.), Joshua Stanton, and Siven Watt discuss new developments in the investigation by Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential results, in an analysis […]