28th Amendment to Overturn Citizens United to Have Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on June 3. Posted on May 21, 2014 (June 27, 2022) Democracy Amendments Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that there will be a vote later this year on SJ Res 19, introduced by Senator Tom Udall, calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and restore the ability of Congress and the states to regulate political spending. SJ Res 19 currently has 40 cosponsors. Read More
Blood Gold And Free Speech Posted on May 20, 2014 (June 27, 2022) Corporate Abuse of Power "What do blood gold, cigarette warning labels, and employee “know your rights” posters have in common? The answer lies in a series of recent court decisions that suggest that some judges don’t see a difference between a Jehovah’s Witness and a multinational corporation" writes Ron Fein, Free Speech For People’s Legal Director in this new piece in the Daily Caller. Click here to read it in full. Read More
We Made Our $500,000 Matching Grant! Posted on May 20, 2014 (June 27, 2022) FSFP Updates We Made Our Match! Thanks to supporters like you, Free Speech For People has made our $500,000 matching grant, which means collectively one million dollars has been raised toward building our new Legal Advocacy Program! Read More
Overturn The Supreme Court Posted on May 7, 2014 (June 27, 2022) Democracy Amendments A new poll from Democracy Corps shows that 80% of the American people are against the Citizens United decision. Read More
FSFP Testimony On Campaign Finance Hearing Posted on May 7, 2014 (June 27, 2022) Democracy Amendments Free Speech For People’s written comments into the record for the Committee’s April 30, 2014 hearing, Dollars and Sense: How Undisclosed Money and Post-McCutcheon Campaign Finance Will Affect 2014 and Beyond, regarding campaign finance can be read below. As explained in detail within the comments, we believe that the Supreme Court’s decisions in Citizens United v. FECRead More
Join Us For The Clean Elections Convention Posted on May 5, 2014 (June 27, 2022) Democracy Amendments Free Speech For People is excited to partner with Maine Citizens for Clean Elections (MCCE) for the first Clean Elections Convention! Read More
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens To Testify on Campaign Finance Posted on April 30, 2014 (June 17, 2022) Democracy Amendments Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is scheduled to testify today on Capitol Hill at a Senate hearing on the high court’s decision to strike limits on aggregate campaign contributions. According to National Law Journal, Read More
FSFP Applauds the Senate Announcement Of Upcoming Floor Vote On the Udall Constitutional Amendment Bill Posted on April 30, 2014 (June 17, 2022) Democracy Amendments Free Speech For People, a national campaign to reclaim our democracy launched on the day of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, applauded today’s announcement that the United States Senate will hold a floor vote this year on Senator Tom Udall’s constitutional amendment bill to allow Congress and the States to regulate and limit the amount of money in politics. Senator Charles Schumer issued this announcement at today’s Senate Rules Committee hearing on the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in McCutcheon v.Read More
New York Lobby Day Is Needed More Than Ever In Light Of New Super-PAC Ruling Posted on April 25, 2014 (June 17, 2022) Challenging Super PACs A federal judge on Thursday struck down New York’s limits on donations to independent political action committees as unconstitutional. Judge Crotty’s reasoning, as reported by Reuters, is this: Read More
Polluting Our Democracy And Our Environment Posted on April 23, 2014 (June 17, 2022) Corporate Abuse of Power In light of Earth Day on April 22nd, The Sierra Club has released a must-read report Polluting Our Democracy And Our Environment that draws out the parallels between big money’s influence in politics and the impact those same interests also have on the environment. It reads, Read More