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BY RICHARD GEPHARDT, GARY HART, JOEL MCCLEARY and MARK MEDISH September 15, 2021 Richard Gephardt is a former congressman from Missouri and House majority leader. Gary Hart is a former senator from Colorado. Joel McCleary and Mark Medish served at the White House under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, respectively. All four are members of Keep Our Republic,…

TOM ROGERS AND TIMOTHY E. WIRTH  ON 9/14/21 AT 6:00 AM EDT 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 to undermine the integrity of election results. We were quite…

By Ari Mittleman As the dust settles from Tuesday’s primary, all Pennsylvanians, regardless of party, should celebrate the turnout being much higher than in past “off year” elections. This was due in large part to the roughly 710,000 Pennsylvanians who requested and ultimately voted by mail. The historic turnout in the 2020 election changed the…

By Gary Hart 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.…

By Dick Gephardt, Timothy E. Wirth And Tom Rogers 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 head on, now. Three months into 2021, some 253 pieces of legislation and counting have…

By Mary McCord Legal director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection Much of the discussion right now about how to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his role in the attack on the Capitol last week is focused on impeachment and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. But criminal accountability is another option, and a criminal…

Wednesday on Political Rewind: We ask two former U.S. senators about the state of our democratic institutions. As we come to the end of the Trump era, just how fragile is the American experiment in democracy? Former Sen. Gary Hart and former U.S. Rep. Richard “Dick” Gephardt are members of a bipartisan election integrity organization called…

It is not too soon to discuss the prosecution of Donald Trump as an absolute political necessity. How the last nine days of his presidency is handled relative to Trump being removed from office or not is one thing, but he must be removed from the political stage permanently. These 10 points must be kept in mind…