Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer This past weekend, President-elect Donald Trump said in an NBC “Meet the Press” interview that “everybody” on the House January 6 Committee “should go to jail.” This is an example of Trump’s presidential revenge and retribution tour. It is the same kind of approach used by dictators like […]
“Another major factual revelation by Special Counsel Jack Smith, another attempt to discredit him without ever addressing the new facts,” Andrew Weissmann and Ryan Goodman write in an analysis published today on Just Security regarding the 2020 election interference/Jan. 6 case brought by Smith against former President Donald Trump. “But this time,” Weissmann and Goodman […]
When Senator J.D. Vance was asked during Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate if former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he refused to answer. Vance doubled down suggesting the presidential transition was peaceful. Peaceful? Vance has to know that Trump incited that day’s violent attack, urging his followers to go to the Capitol and telling them, […]
The January 6 criminal case brought against former President Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith is back in federal district court with Judge Tanya Chutkan. Some thought the case was over when the Supreme Court ruled last month that a former President cannot be prosecuted for actions relating to the core powers of their […]
Some Supreme Court Justices have slow walked a decision in United States v. Trump to the point where it is virtually guaranteed that former President Donald Trump’s trial for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election will not be held before the November election. The Supreme Court case, first raised for consideration with the Court six months ago, […]
A clear-eyed look at the performance of four conservative Justices during the Supreme Court’s oral argument in Trump v. United States last week shows a remarkable lack of interest in former President Trump’s alleged efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election, which is what this case is about. The four Justices – Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil […]
Two pending Supreme Court cases will help determine the extent to which there is criminal accountability for former President Donald Trump for his role in the unprecedented effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and for the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6. This week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Fischer v. […]
In an amicus brief filed Monday with the Supreme Court, 13 former prosecutors, elected officials, other government officials, and constitutional lawyers, including individuals appointed in the Nixon, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Trump Administrations, urged the Supreme Court to reject former President Donald Trump’s request to be granted immunity from federal criminal […]
Former President Donald Trump is less than two weeks away from his first criminal trial – the Manhattan hush money/election interference case, scheduled to start on April 15. Trump may finally have met his match in Judge Juan Merchan, who presides in this case. And, judging by Trump’s recent attacks on the judge and on […]
Former President Donald Trump has made the Jan. 6 defendants a key part of his 2024 campaign, promising that one of his “first acts” in office if reelected, would be to free the “January 6 hostages,” as he calls the defendants. As of March 2024, the D.C. Department of Corrections had 29 Jan. 6 inmates in […]
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