Ethics & Accountability


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D21 Files 6th DOJ Complaint Against AG Barr, This Time for Appointing Former Trump Aide to Lead Criminal Investigation into Obama Administration ‘Unmasking’

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Democracy 21 Files Sixth DOJ Complaint Against AG Barr, This Time for Appointing Former Trump White House Aide to Lead Criminal Investigation into Obama Administration ‘Unmasking’ Complaint Says Barr Should Not Have Opened Investigation Just Months Before Presidential Election and Bash Should Not Be Leading the Investigation Democracy 21 filed a complaint today with the […]

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An Inflection Point for America

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An Inflection Point for America (Fred Wertheimer | June 5, 2020 | Medium) The tragic, senseless, brutal killing of African American George Floyd by a police officer, aided and abetted by three fellow officers, and its aftermath, may well turn out to be an inflection point for America. The killing has awakened the nation to […]

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Trump’s Political Blackmail

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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 21, 2020 “The protections needed for our system of representative government are clear. We must ensure that safe and secure elections take place in every state in the union.” President Trump’s latest attacks on voting by mail reveal in stark terms his plans for the November presidential election. Trump’s […]

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$3.6 Billion for Safe Elections

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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 14, 2020 “These funds are needed now to allow states to begin all the operational steps that are necessary to be ready for the election.” The House is currently scheduled to vote tomorrow on the next stimulus relief package, the HEROES Act, which provides more than $3 trillion to […]

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Barr Has Failed The American People

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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 7, 2020 “It is essential to win this fight now, as time is running out for the states to be able to use the funding effectively in advance of the November election.” The fight over providing money for the states to run their November elections is now underway in […]

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Barr Ignores Settled DOJ Policies in Obsessive Pursuit of DOJ Investigators – Wertheimer article in Just Security

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  Attorney General Barr Ignores Long-Established DOJ Rules in Obsessive Pursuit of DOJ Investigators of Russian Interference in 2016 Election Enclosed for your information is an article by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer entitled “Barr Ignores Settled DOJ Policies in Run Up to 2020 Elections,” which was published here in Just Security on May 7, […]

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Protecting the Vote in a Pandemic

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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | April 23, 2020 “The battle to ensure that every eligible voter gets to vote is at the heart of the fundamental role played by the right to vote in our constitutional system of representative government.” The battle lines are now drawn on the critical issue of whether Congress will provide […]

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Mitch McConnell vs. Fair Elections

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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | April 16, 2020   President Trump has been a dangerous threat to our democratic values, our constitutional system of government, and now, with his incompetent and narcissistic pandemic performance, to the very lives of untold numbers of Americans. That’s why the November presidential election is considered by many to be […]

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President Trump, in a Surprise Move, Apparently Embraces Public Financing of Elections – But Only for Himself

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President Trump, in a Surprise Move, Apparently Embraces Public Financing of Elections – But Only for Himself Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer In a surprise move, and in the face of Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s longstanding opposition, President Trump now appears to have embraced public financing of elections – but only for his […]

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Protect the Vote

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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | April 9, 2020 “No voter in America should have to risk their life in order to cast their vote. “ The despicable actions taken by Republican Wisconsin officeholders forced Wisconsin voters this week to make a terrible choice: either risk your life to vote in person or forfeit your sacred […]

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