Heute hat Common Cause seine Democracy Scorecard 2024 veröffentlicht, die die Positionen aller Kongressmitglieder zu Themen verfolgt, die für die Gesundheit unserer Demokratie während des 118. Kongresses von entscheidender Bedeutung sind. Während dieses Kongresses wurden die Mitglieder des Repräsentantenhauses und des Senats darüber informiert, dass verschiedene Abstimmungen zu wichtigen Demokratiethemen – darunter Wahlrecht, richterliche Ethik und Offenlegung der Wahlkampffinanzierung – in die Scorecard einfließen würden, die an unsere 1,5 Millionen Mitglieder, Verbündeten sowie an die staatlichen und nationalen Medien verteilt wird.  

Der CLEAN Act verpflichtet die Kongressabgeordneten zur Einhaltung höchster ethischer Standards.

VERMONT — Common Cause, the nonpartisan watchdog, released its 2024 “Democracy Scorecard," recording every member of Congress’ support for voting rights, Supreme Court ethics, and other reforms.  

Common Cause hat Beweise erhalten, die bestätigen, dass politische Aktivisten jahrelang Pläne schmiedeten, unsere Demokratie mit einer Frage nach der Staatsbürgerschaft bei der Volkszählung zu manipulieren. Thomas Hofeller, der Chef der Gerrymandering-Bewegung der Republikaner, legte einen Plan vor, die Frage nach der Staatsbürgerschaft in die Volkszählung aufzunehmen. Der Zweck? Die Manipulation unseres Volkszählungs- und Neugliederungsprozesses, um, in Hofellers Worten, „für Republikaner und nicht-hispanische Weiße von Vorteil zu sein“.

Tomorrow at 9:00 a.m., Common Cause President Karen Hobert Flynn will testify before the House Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties on the “Constitutional Means to Prevent Abuse of the Clemency Power.” Her full written testimony was submitted to the Subcommittee in advance of the hearing. Other witnesses include Georgetown University Law Professor Caroline Fredrickson and historian Timothy Naftali of New York University.

Americans expect and deserve a President who respects the rule of law, not one who abuses his power to undermine lawful convictions and attempts to whitewash his own corrupt presidency. With tonight’s pardons and commutations, President Trump has once again gravely abused the power of the presidency. Instead of granting pardons as an act of clemency for those who regret their crimes, he is engaged in an effort to hide his own malfeasance by undermining the Russia probe and other political corruption issues. This is a reprehensible abuse of...

Americans expect and deserve to hear from witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment Trial. The latest revelations that former Trump national security advisor John Bolton can provide direct evidence to expose President Trump’s lies about withholding critical military aide to Ukraine hammer home the need for the Senate to call witnesses. These new details add to a growing mountain of evidence that the President withheld the aide for his personal political gain, lied about it, and had his entire administration stonewall in an attempt to cover...

Former Trump Administration national security advisor John Bolton’s willingness to testify highlights the need for witness testimony if the Senate is to hold a fair impeachment trial of Donald Trump. In the face of threats by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to move forward with the trial without Democratic support, Common Cause today urged every member of the Senate to commit to a fair and unbiased trial of President Trump – including calling witnesses and returning campaign funds raised for them by the President who will be the...