2010 State Legislation in Response to Citizens United

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FSFP Legal Director Ron Fein Discusses Our Legal Challenge To Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s Candidacy for Reelection Under Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause On CNN.

Posted on January 28, 2022 (January 28, 2022)

FSFP Legal Director Ron Fein recently joined Erin Burnett Outfront on CNN to discuss our legal challenge to Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s candidacy for reelection under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, based on evidence that he helped facilitate the January 6, 2021 insurrection. “When we have Members of Congress or other officials who are taking
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Citizens United Anniversary.

Posted on January 18, 2022 (January 21, 2022)

Corporate Abuse of Power

Twelve years ago today, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission swept away a century of precedent that barred corporate money in our elections and opened the floodgates to corporations spending limitless sums of money to take over our elections. And lower federal courts have gone even further, prohibiting Congress from
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Remote Summer 2022 Legal Internships at Free Speech For People

Posted on January 18, 2022

FSFP Updates

Come join the campaign to reclaim democracy for the people by fighting for free and fair elections, and accountability for presidential corruption and abuse of power, in the summer of 2022! Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan nonprofit organization, was founded in 2010 after the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC decision. We’re working
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For a complete list of state legislation introduced in 2010 in response to Citizens United, visit the State and Local Support page on the United for the People website, here.

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