Hoy, Common Cause publicó su Cuadro de Indicadores de la Democracia 2024, en el que se hace un seguimiento de las posiciones de cada miembro del Congreso sobre cuestiones vitales para la salud de nuestra democracia durante el 118.º Congreso. A lo largo de este Congreso, se notificó a los miembros de la Cámara de Representantes y del Senado que se contabilizarían varios votos sobre cuestiones clave para la democracia (incluidos los derechos de voto, la ética judicial y la divulgación de la financiación de las campañas) en el Cuadro de Indicadores, que se distribuirá a nuestros 1,5 millones de miembros, aliados y medios de comunicación estatales y nacionales.  

La Ley CLEAN exigirá a los miembros del Congreso los más altos estándares éticos.

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.  

La evidencia obtenida por Common Cause confirma cómo los operadores políticos pasaron años conspirando para manipular nuestra democracia con una pregunta sobre ciudadanía en el Censo. El principal cerebro de la manipulación de distritos electorales del Partido Republicano, Thomas Hofeller, presentó un plan para agregar la pregunta sobre ciudadanía al Censo. ¿El propósito? Manipular nuestro proceso de censo y redistribución de distritos para que sea, en palabras de Hofeller, "ventajoso para los republicanos y los blancos no hispanos".

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...