Ethics & Accountability


We are challenging ethics abuses and transparency issues and demanding accountability from Congress and the Executive Branch, because that’s what the American people deserve.

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Law & Disorder

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Donald Trump is treating the presidency as his own personal domain, not as a public trust. This is not new, of course. We saw strong […]

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A $400-Million Problem: How To Close The Presidential Gift Ban Exemption

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President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he intends to accept the gift of a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet, dubbed a “Palace in the Sky” […]

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D21 Joins In Urging House Leaders To Approve OCC Board Overseeing House Ethics

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Democracy 21 joined with Campaign Legal Center and 18 other good government partners to urge U.S. Representatives to approve the board of the Office of […]

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A Rogue Supreme Court

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Today’s Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, is likely to go down as one of the worst Supreme Courts in American history. It […]

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The GOP Is Abandoning The Rule Of Law

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Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note  |  July 27, 2023 The rule of law is a foundational principle of our country and at the heart of our […]

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D21 Applauds Senate Judiciary Committee Members Who Voted To Advance Supreme Court Code Of Ethics Measure; Urges Full Senate To Pass Legislation

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Statement of D21 President Fred Wertheimer “It is inexplicable and indefensible that the Supreme Court has failed to adopt the same kind of ethics code that […]

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Op-Ed: Jim Jordan Showed On His First Day How Unfit He Is To Lead The House Judiciary Committee

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This week, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) gaveled in the first hearing in what he promised will be a crusade against the Biden Administration: “[W]e won’t […]

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Pence Document Case Shows It’s Time for New Protocols

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This op-ed appeared in Newsweek. Pence Document Case Shows It’s Time for New Protocols By: Norman Eisen, Joshua Stanton, and Fred Wertheimer  This week, we […]

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39 GOP Freshmen Vote To Gut A House Ethics Office & Jim Jordan Plans His Hypocritical Attacks

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Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | January 12, 2023 They came to Washington last week ready to represent the constituents who had given them the honor […]

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George Santos’s Long Trail Of Lies, Deceptions, And Distortions

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Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | January 5, 2023 “There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible, and he who permits himself to tell […]

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