“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 […]
“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1785 It’s no […]
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, […]
For the past four years, former President Donald Trump has been building a cult of election deniers who believe his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. They don’t care that no one has ever presented a shred of credible evidence to support Trump’s blatantly bogus claim. Notwithstanding the lack of […]
Chief Justice John Roberts appears to have sold out the independent third branch of government he leads, by choosing to bend the knee to former President Donald Trump. Roberts has appeared in recent years to lose his leadership of the Supreme Court to the Trump-aligned wing of the Court. Roberts’s response has been to seize […]
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 […]
It began on July 13 with the horrifying assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Five days later, on July 18, Trump accepted the Republican party’s presidential nomination with a rambling 92-minute acceptance speech. It was the third time the party had nominated Trump to run for President. Then, on […]
On Monday, federal district court Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Mar-a-Lago classified documents criminal case facing former President Donald Trump. Cannon did not rule on the merits of the case itself. The 37 felony charges brought against Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith in June 2023 presented a powerful case that seemed “open and shut.” Instead, Cannon ruled that […]
In Trump v. United States, the last opinion of the Supreme Court’s term, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing also for the five other Republican-appointed, conservative Justices, exhibited arrogance and hubris in a shameless attempt to overrule our Founders. The Roberts opinion bestowed absolute immunity for “official acts” in some cases and presumptive immunity in others for Presidents that […]
By: Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21 This week, Chief Justice John Roberts and his band of five other Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justices restored the king to the top of our government. Our nation’s Founders fought a revolution to help ensure our nation would be forever free from the clutches of an unrestrained monarch. The Founders […]
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