Tag Archive for: Jan. 6

Joscelyn, Eisen, & Wertheimer On Just Security: How Trump’s CNN Town Hall Remarks Put Him In Greater Legal Peril For The Jan. 6 Investigations

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During CNN’s town hall on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump made multiple incriminating remarks about his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Tom Joscelyn, Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.), and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write today on Just Security. “Trump’s responses will further hurt his case should Special Counsel Jack Smith charge the former President in […]

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Eisen/Joscelyn/Wertheimer In The Hill: House Republicans Continue GOP’s Affront To Law Enforcement

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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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New From Just Security: Profiles Of The January 6th Inmates In The DC Jail

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Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and James Comer (R-KY), Chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, recently announced their intention to arrange a congressional delegation to visit January 6 inmates being held in the Washington, DC jail. Both Greene and former President Donald Trump have portrayed these inmates as “political prisoners.” However, Tom Joscelyn, […]

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Trump Faces A Slew Of Civil & Potential Criminal Court Cases

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  Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 16 , 2023 Former President Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 presidential election and in the process did enormous damage to our democracy and the integrity of our elections. It increasingly looks like Trump might just finally be held accountable for his attacks on our democracy, his […]

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Tom Joscelyn In POLITICO: “I Helped Write the Jan. 6 Committee Report. Here’s What Tucker Carlson Left Out.”

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“Tucker Carlson tried to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021, and utterly failed,” Tom Joscelyn writes in a powerful op-ed published on POLITICO. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave the Fox News host exclusive media access to more than 40,000 hours of U.S. Capitol Police security footage. Last week Carlson began airing cherry-picked portions of the video on […]

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Fox News & House Republicans Want To Rewrite Jan. 6 History. They Will Fail.

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Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 9 , 2023 Dominion Voting Systems has provided a public service for the American people. As a result of its pending defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Dominion has laid bare the extraordinary con game that Fox carried out in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and that continues today. Fox elevated and […]

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The Problem With Tucker Carlson

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Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 2, 2023 Kevin McCarthy got the votes he needed to become House Speaker in January by giving the extremist wing of House Republicans pretty much everything they wanted. In doing so, he empowered the most extreme of these House Republicans, including Representatives Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, James Comer, Marjorie […]

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Eisen & Wertheimer Op-Ed On CNN: Georgia Grand Juror’s Tacky Media Tour Won’t Trash The Case

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Emily Kohrs, the Georgia special grand jury foreperson in the Trump investigation who made the media rounds this week “won’t win any prizes for grand jury foreperson etiquette. Her display has been unseemly, to say the least. It has violated good taste – but not the law,” Ambassador Norm Eisen (ret.) and Democracy 21 President […]

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Eisen, Watt, & Wertheimer On Just Security: “Speech Or Debate” Immunity Will Not Protect Rep. Scott Perry’s Phone

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On Thursday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing on whether Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), whose activities are being investigated as part of the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 criminal investigation, is protected by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause. Perry played an outsized role in the attempted interference in the 2020 presidential election and the court […]

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Welcome to The Insurrection: Part II

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Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 23, 2023 The Trump-led insurrection that culminated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol did not end with the certification of Joe Biden as President.  Welcome to The Insurrection: Part II. The goal is the same – ensure that former President Donald Trump or a Trump-like candidate becomes […]

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