Month: April 2019

Victory: Federal Election Commission Adopts Our Recommendations on Cryptocurrency Mining for Campaigns

Today, the Federal Election Commission voted 4-0 to adopt an advisory opinion that embraces Free Speech For People’s recommendations regarding a platform to enable use of distributed computers to mine cryptocurrency for political campaigns. Free Speech For People was the only campaign finance reform organization involved in the regulatory process. BACKGROUND In September 2018, a
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Organizations Urge Congress to Investigate Justice Kavanaugh’s Confirmation

On April 11, 2019, Free Speech For People joined Demand Justice and a coalition of sexual assault survivors’ organizations and other progressive groups to urge House Democrats to investigate Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation. Free Speech For People first called for an impeachment investigation of Brett Kavanaugh in October 2018, due to multiple allegations
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Amicus Brief by Election Security Experts Highlights Major Flaws in South Carolina Election Systems

“With this brief, election security experts are sounding the alarm about the vulnerability of voting systems in South Carolina and in other states using electronic voting machines which cannot be trusted for properly counting our votes. With the 2020 election looming, this case provides the opportunity for the courts to intervene and protect the fundamental
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Response to Arguments Against Closing New York’s Pardon Loophole

Free Speech For People has issued a memorandum responding to arguments that have been raised against closing New York’s presidential pardon loophole. As explained in the New York Daily News by Ron Fein and Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, current New York state law could allow certain defendants pardoned by the president for their federal
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Public Interest Groups to EPA: Constitution Forbids Weakening Clean Water Protections to Benefit Trump’s Golf Courses

Free Speech For People and the New Jersey-based Raritan Headwaters Association filed a comment arguing that the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are constitutionally prohibited from relaxing a Clean Water Act protection so as to benefit presidentially-owned golf courses. Background The process for this rule has been somewhat complex. In 2015,
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