Month: August 2018

Free Speech For People announced today that it delivered a letter to New York State Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood on August 24, 2018, calling for an investigation into whether to revoke the corporate charter of the Trump Organization under a New York law that authorizes her to dissolve a corporation for persistently illegal conduct
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San Francisco has long been on the front lines of advancing campaign finance reforms. The city boasts an impressive public financing program, and has been recognized as a leader for its disclosure requirements. Still, outside money has poured into local elections at increasing rates since the federal appeals court decision, SpeechNow v. FEC, opened the floodgates
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Free Speech For People Legal Director Ron Fein joined Congressman Al Green and Democracy Now to discuss the  latest in the legal case for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, including our newest ground for impeachment, illegal hush money payments made in violation of the Federal Campaign Finance Act at the request of Trump,
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Free Speech For People issued today a statement in response to the personal attorney to Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, pleading guilty on eight criminal charges. These charges include violations of the Federal Campaign Finance Act for hush money payments made at the request of Donald Trump for the purpose of influencing the 2016 election. Michael
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Our new book The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump, was released Tuesday, August 14th. You can purchase the book now here. The book was written by Free Speech For People Legal Director Ron Fein, Co-Founder and President John Bonifaz, and Chair of the Board of Directors Ben Clements, with a
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Miles Mogulescu reviews our new book, The Constitution Demands It, for Common Dreams and details the current constitutional crisis facing the country. Millions of Americans sit helplessly by as an unfit, narcissistic, ignorant, pathologically lying, misogynistic, racist, xenophobic President allies himself with Russia and Putin against our government. He does nothing to protect American elections
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Jessica Kwong of Newsweek discusses our new book, The Constitution Demands It, and the case for beginning impeachment proceedings against the President. Congress, which has the authority to begin impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump has been reluctant to act, awaiting the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation, among other things. But in
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On August 8, 2018, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James introduced a proposed local law that prohibits foreign-influenced entities from spending money in New York City elections. We worked closely with the NYC Public Advocate’s office in drafting this legislation, modeled off of a similar law we recently helped to enact in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, penned a letter to our supporters calling on Congress to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against the President. The President’s policy of separating immigrant children is yet another gross violation of the Constitution on top of many other abuses of power.  Ms. Milano recommends our new book, The Constitution Demands It,
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