Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | June 9, 2022 The Jan. 6 House Committee hearings begin tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern and will air live on the broadcast networks, PBS, NPR, and other outlets, including online. This is “Must See TV.” Every American who wants our country to remain a democracy needs to watch. The fact-based hearings are […]
Facing a crisis from the loss of public confidence, the Supreme Court must adopt a Code of Conduct and strengthen its internal procedures for applying conflict-of-interest standards for a Justice to recuse from cases pending before the Court, three government watchdogs wrote in letters sent today to Chief Justice John Roberts, and to Senate Judiciary […]
With the House Jan. 6 Committee about to launch a series of landmark hearings beginning this Thursday, Brookings has published the in-depth report: Trump on Trial: A Guide to the January 6 Committee Hearings and the Question of Criminality, a comprehensive guide to the proceedings. The 98-page report was authored by Norman Eisen, Donald Ayer, Joshua Perry, Noah […]
E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: The Jan. 6 Committee Has A Narrow But Priceless Opening “The task before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol this week is to demonstrate that day’s viciousness was not some spontaneous outbreak of mayhem but an organized, radical, and dangerous assault on […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | June 2, 2022 The televised hearings of the House Jan. 6 Committee that begin next Thursday will have historical significance in the battle taking place in our country between democracy and autocracy. The House Select Committee is investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol – the first since the […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 28, 2022 It’s time for former President Trump to face the music. The rule of law is a cornerstone of our democracy. “Nobody is above the law” is a fundamental tenet of our legal system. Trump believes otherwise. Trump’s views about complying with laws were succinctly captured during the […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 21, 2022 In a speech to the House of Commons in 1948,Winston Churchill said that “those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” This warning looms large as we head into the public hearings to be held by the House Jan. 6 Committee in late May […]
“Every piece of evidence that Trump committed a crime should be at the forefront of the hearings.” – D21 President Fred Wertheimer “Our democracy is sleepwalking toward catastrophe,” E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in his new column in The Washington Post. “With the Jan. 6 committee expected to hold hearings soon — in May or early […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 14, 2022 As we head into the 2022 congressional elections, the implications of Trump’s Big Lie, the January 6 violent insurrection at the Capitol, and the voter suppression and election sabotage laws that followed, are coming into major play. In early June, the House Jan. 6 Committee is expected […]
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer on Inside America with Ghida Fakhry, TRT World. April 13, 2022.
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