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Road Map for a Constitutional Coup: The Republican Plan for Legislative Nullification of the Popular Vote for President October 4, 2021 | Jonathan M. Winer | Washington Spectator It has now become clear that the efforts of Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn the 2020 elections were a multi-front attack. The newest revelations have…

The Truth Behind the Results of the Maricopa County Election Audit September 27, 2021 | Ralph Neas, Richard A. Gephardt, Timothy E. Wirth, Gary Hart and Anthony Essaye | The Century Foundation This past Friday, September 24, the result of the so-called “audit” of the election results in Maricopa County by the Republican Majority in…

Opinion | Why Trump’s Chaos Requires New Guardrails on Biden Alarming reports about Trump’s White House maneuvering should spur robust new checks on the presidency. September 15, 2021 | Richard Gephardt, Gary Hart, Joel McCleary and Mark Medish | POLITICO The upheaval of the past year was like a giant stress test of our constitutional…

Holding Lawyers to Account Part 2 | Opinion September 14, 2021 | Tom Rogers and Timothy E. Wirth | Newsweek A month before last November’s election, we wrote a column imploring state bars overseeing the licensing of lawyers to make clear to all attorneys involved in the election process not to file frivolous claims intended…

Gary Hart: We were warned of an attack on the scale of 9/11. No one listened. September 10, 2021 | Gary Hart | The Denver Post On this, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, much will be written and said about the nation’s lack of preparedness for such attacks and the…

One of the several wars left over by the Trump administration and the recent 2020 election is the explosion of initiatives, largely in red State legislatures, to restrict voting by limiting or eliminating absentee or mail-in ballots, requiring multiple identification documents, restricting voting hours and days, and generally discouraging people from voting. This is the…

The Big Lie Exception to the Filibuster Rule | Opinion March 24, 2021 | Dick Gephardt, Timothy E. Wirth and Tom Rogers | Newsweek Protecting American's right to vote is shaping up to be the central civil rights battle of the Biden presidency, and the massive effort to suppress that right needs to be addressed…

Investigate Him A criminal investigation probing the president’s actions leading up to the January 6 attack on the Capitol is more than warranted. January 13, 2021 | Mary McCord | The Atlantic Much of the discussion right now about how to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his role in the attack on the Capitol…