Press Releases Archive
Past Statements By Numerous Republican Senators & Representatives In Opposition To President Trump Firing Special Counsel Mueller & In Support Of Mueller The following statements were made in the past by numerous Republican Senators and Representatives in opposition to President Donald Trump firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and in support of Mr. Mueller as Special […]
DOJ & FEC Complaints Against Donald Trump Jr. Supplemented To Include Kushner, Manafort, and Goldstone For Illegally Soliciting & Assisting Solicitation Of Contribution From Foreign National Today Common Cause, the Campaign Legal Center, and Democracy 21 filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) supplementing a complaint […]
CLC, D21 Complaint: Tom Price Violated Law By Using Campaign Funds To Secure HHS Confirmation Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Democracy 21 filed a complaint today with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging Tom Price violated federal law by illegally using congressional campaign funds to support his confirmation as President Trump’s Health and Human Services […]
Democracy 21 Says Recent Court Ruling Against Kobach Illustrates His Lack Of Integrity & Shows Why No State Should Trust Him With Any Voter Information Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Last week, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, in his capacity as Vice Chair of President Trump’s controversial Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, […]
An Article From Protect Democracy Examines Potential Interference To Watch Out For In Special Counsel’s Russia Investigation An article by Legal Director Justin Florence and Counsel Larry Schwartzol of Protect Democracy and posted on Lawfare, examines potential acts of interference into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation that “would warrant an aggressive congressional response.” “Congress […]
Campaign Legal Center & Democracy 21 File Complaint Against Tennessee Congressional Candidate, American Conservative Union, And Others Who Coordinated On Elaborate Scheme To Evade Campaign Finance Law Violations include illegal coordination, straw donor schemes, excessive contributions, and failure to report contributions On June 21, 2017, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Democracy 21 (D21) filed […]
Watchdogs Call On President Trump To Let Special Counsel Mueller Do His Job Without Any Presidential Interference In a letter sent to President Donald Trump today, watchdog groups and experts expressed their deep concern about Trump’s attacks on the Justice Department’s reported investigation into whether the President has committed obstruction of justice with regard to […]
In a letter sent today to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Democracy 21 called on the Speaker to stop House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) from continuing to violate his commitment to step aside from the Committee’s investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. According to the letter to the Speaker: Your […]
Democracy 21 is focusing a major part our efforts this year on challenging President Trump’s reckless and destructive approach to governing our country. The organization has been in the forefront of the efforts to watchdog and challenge the ethics, conflicts of interest and other abuses by President Trump and his administration. NPR has described Democracy […]
Democracy 21 sent a letter today to Mick Mulvaney, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), calling on him to back off from interfering with the efforts of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) to oversee and enforce the Executive Branch ethics rules. On May 17, 2017, Mulvaney sent a letter […]
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