We recently filed a petition for rehearing en banc in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Lieu v. Federal Election Commission, the case that could end super PACs. The goal of the Lieu litigation is to give the D.C. Circuit, … More
Free Speech For People Legal Director Ron Fein appeared on Rising Up With Sonali to discuss the first day of public hearings for the ongoing impeachment investigation of Donald Trump. Wednesday’s public testimony featured acting U.S Ambassador to Ukraine William … More
Drafted by Free Speech For People, and published by a coalition including By The People, CREDO Action, Free Speech For People and Women’s March, the articles of impeachment cover the full range of Trump’s abuses of power. WASHINGTON, D.C. — … More
CINCINNATI, OH – Free Speech For People and the law firm Covington & Burling filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Thursday, November 7, 2019, on behalf of the National Election Defense … More
PHILADELPHIA, PA – In response to the failure of Northampton County’s new ExpressVote XL voting machines in their inaugural election, advocates for election system security, accuracy and transparency have renewed their call for the Secretary of the Commonwealth to decertify … More
As of last week, Amazon has poured over $1.5 million into Seattle’s upcoming city council election through the local Chamber of Commerce’s super PAC, The Civil Alliance for a Sound Economy. That total represents more than the combined total raised by candidates … More
We launched our impeachment campaign on January 20, 2017, the day of President Trump’s inauguration, because of his immediate and serious violations of the Constitution’s anti-corruption emoluments clauses. We welcome yesterday’s action by the House of Representatives specifying rules for … More
Buried in the whistleblower complaint which exposed the Ukraine scandal is this alarming claim: the Trump White House has been abusing a computer system for highly classified intelligence information to cover up transcripts of presidential calls with foreign leaders which … More
In a recent Boston Globe piece FSFP Legal Director Ron Fein and Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe make a strong case for broadening the scope of the ongoing impeachment inquiry to include Donald Trump’s abuse of the pardon power. … More
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers finalized a rollback of a 2015 clean water protection known as the “waters of the United States rule.” While this has been expected since Trump ordered it early in … More