When it comes to dysfunction in our democracy, we are off the charts these days – from the House’s faux Biden impeachment inquiry, to the looming government shutdown, to the latest barrage of dangerous verbal attacks from former President Trump, to the gold bar influence-buying scandal engulfing Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ). The House Oversight Committee opened an […]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has been pushing hard for an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and this week he got his wish. On Tuesday, Speaker Kevin McCarthy directed House committees to open a Biden impeachment inquiry. McCarthy’s unilateral announcement may not have any legal validity. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump’s Justice Department issued a formal Opinion that remains […]
As the country faces a potential government shutdown at the end of September, Senators appear to be working in a bipartisan way to avoid the shutdown and fund the government for this fiscal year. But, in the House, it’s a completely different story. Bipartisanship is dead. It wasn’t always like this. For decades, in working […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | August 10, 2023 Ever since they took control of the House in January, MAGA Republicans have been hunting President Joe Biden. House Republicans – led by beleaguered House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and key members of the extremist “Freedom Caucus” – are expected to move forward with an impeachment proceeding against […]
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 civilization. But in recent years, Republican officeholders have been abandoning the rule of law and opting instead for raw partisan politics, often at any cost. This started with former President […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | July 13, 2023 After a more than six-hour mark up in the House Administration Committee on Thursday, the Republican-led committee, on a party-line vote, approved H.R. 4563, the ACE Act. The full House is expected to vote on the measure before the August recess. This so-called American Confidence in Elections […]
Representative George Santos (R-NY) was indicted on Wednesday on 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements to Congress. Santos “has lied repeatedly about matters large and small. While fabrications about his religion, education, and college sports career may not be legally actionable, making false statements on government filings are, as is obtaining money […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 11, 2023 On Wednesday, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was arrested and charged with 13 federal crimes – seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making false statements to Congress. With so much in the news this week […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 6, 2023 Our democracy is under attack and seriously threatened. These attacks crystallized in 2020 when then-President Donald Trump attempted to steal the election he had lost, the first attempted presidential coup in our nation’s history, and the lead role he played in unleashing the January 6 insurrectionist attack […]
On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) and other lawmakers visited Jan. 6 defendants who are currently incarcerated in the DC jail, proclaiming them to be victims of a “two-tier injustice system.” “These inmates are not victims,” Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.); Thomas Joscelyn, a senior staff member on the House Jan. 6th Committee; and Democracy 21 President […]
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