The following op-ed, by Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.) and Amy Lee Copeland, a criminal defense and appellate attorney in Savannah, Georgia, appeared in The New York Times on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. Read online or below. ________________________ The New York Times | 8/15/2023 Why the Fani Willis Prosecution of Donald Trump Is Indispensable By Norman Eisen and Amy Lee Copeland Mr. […]
This week, former President Donald Trump’s co-lead defense counsel John Lauro laid out a five-part structure of what is expected to be Trump’s defense in the case brought this week by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Trump’s expected defense “is not to be taken lightly – even though, after much drama, we expect all five elements […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | August 3, 2023 Jeffrey Clark is presumed to be “Co-Conspirator 4” in the indictment of former President Donald Trump filed this week. Clark will go down as a footnote in history, but had Trump’s scheme to overturn the election succeeded, he might have changed history. In 2020, Clark was serving […]
This fact sheet was prepared by and is being distributed by Democracy 21 Education Fund. _______________________ Read the indictment: United States of America v. Donald J. Trump 1. According to the indictment, former President Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and proceeded with an illegal attempt to hold onto power through […]
The investigations into former President Donald Trump and his allies’ attempts to undermine the results of the 2020 election continue to gain strength and the emergence of an inquiry in Arizona holds special significance, Joshua Kolb, a former law clerk on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write in a new op-ed on MSNBC. […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | September 15, 2022 The damage former President Donald Trump has done to our democracy is catastrophic. The further damage he would do if ever returned to the presidency is incalculable. Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 presidential election being stolen, the culmination of more than 30,000 false and misleading statements during his […]
More than 120 civil rights, democracy, and public interest groups, including Democracy 21, called on the major social media companies to combat and curb election disinformation on their platforms ahead of this year’s midterm elections. In a May 12 letter to the CEOs of Meta (Facebook), Twitter, YouTube, Snap, Instagram, TikTok, and Alphabet (Google), the groups urged […]
If Donald Trump is nominated again in 2024, “another attempt at a Trump presidential coup is far more likely to succeed – unless flawed laws, enacted in 1845 and 1887 and still on the books today, are repaired,” Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer warns in a new op-ed published today by Just Security. While most of […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 10, 2022 The 2020 election was “the most secure in American history,” according to a statement issued by officials in the Trump Administration after the election. And, there’s never been a shred of evidence to back up Trump’s blatantly false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | February 17, 2022 The attacks on our democracy are moving into the 2022 primary elections. New state voter suppression laws that restrict access to absentee ballots, eliminate ballot drop boxes, drop registered voters from the rolls, and reduce polling places, among other provisions, are about to directly impact voters in […]
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