Join Senator Gillibrand for the Biden Publish the ERA Digital Town Hall Posted on November 25, 2024 (November 25, 2024) As attacks on the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQIA+ individuals surge nationwide, a second Trump term comes with grave new threats spelled out in Project 2025. With so many freedoms on the line, President Biden has the authority, responsibility, and opportunity to certify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) before his term ends. The ERARead More
U.S. Department of Justice Files Amicus Brief to Support Appeal by Colorado Civil Rights Organizations in Voter Intimidation Suit Posted on November 15, 2024 (November 20, 2024) Election Protection Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. These groups, represented by Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells, filed their appeal brief last week, challenging theRead More
Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification Posted on November 13, 2024 (November 18, 2024) Election Protection A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification. Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessedRead More
Free Speech For People’s Statement on the 2024 Election Posted on November 8, 2024 (November 12, 2024) FSFP Updates Our democracy is worth saving. This election cycle, our democracy has been staggered by blow after blow. We cannot pretend otherwise; to do so would be to accept that this hamstrung system is the one with which we must live. It is not and we do not accept that it is. We will keep fightingRead More
Statement on Election Verification Posted on November 8, 2024 Election Protection Over the past several weeks, voters cast their votes to make their voices heard in the general elections. Votes were counted rapidly on election night — mostly by computers — to generate unofficial results. But counting votes is a process and the election night count is but one part of that process. The number ofRead More
Voting Rights Organizations File Appeal to Protect Colorado Voters from Intimidation Posted on November 8, 2024 (November 8, 2024) Election Protection Yesterday, Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells filed our appeal brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on behalf of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. The appeal challenges the district court’s rulings that the United States Election Integrity Plan (USEIP) and threeRead More
Victory! Maine becomes the first state to eliminate super PACs Posted on November 7, 2024 (November 22, 2024) Challenging Super PACs On November 5, 2024, an overwhelming majority of Mainers voted to limit annual contributions to super PACs from individuals, businesses, and other PACs to $5,000 in a calendar year. Free Speech For People has helped lead the movement to end super PACs nationwide and strongly endorsed this initiative. We congratulate Maine Citizens to End SuperPACsRead More
The Supreme Court’s Self-Serving Decisions to Exonerate Corrupt Officials For the Court’s Own Benefit Posted on November 1, 2024 Supreme Court The following is commentary by Amira Mattar, Counsel, and Courtney Hostetler, Legal Director, at Free Speech For People. It originally appeared as an op-ed in Common Dreams and is reprinted below: Opinion by opinion, the Supreme Court has moved towards a judicial framework that insulates justices from growing public concern about their own corruption. InRead More
Free Speech For People Calls on the Pennsylvania Attorney General to take Steps to Remove Leading Election Denialist Attorney from Representing Fulton County, Pennsylvania Posted on November 1, 2024 Election Protection On October 31st, Free Speech For People sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry calling on her to take all appropriate and necessary steps to urgently remove Stefanie Lambert from representing Fulton County, Pennsylvania as “special counsel” for all elections and election-related matters. Lambert is a key figure in the effort toRead More
Free Speech For People and Mayer Brown Move to Intervene on behalf of the NAACP to Protect Nevada Voters from Last Minute Purge of Voter Rolls Posted on October 31, 2024 (November 1, 2024) Election Protection Today, the NAACP Tri-State Conference of Idaho-Nevada-Utah, represented by Free Speech For People, Mayer Brown LLP, and Woodburn and Wedge, moved to intervene in Dagusen v. Aguilar, a lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, Nevada Republican Party, and a voter demanding an unlawful purge of Nevada’s voter rolls just weeks beforeRead More