Corporate Lobby Drops Equal Protection Challenge to Seattle Minimum Wage Law Posted on February 2, 2016 (November 29, 2018) Is this the end of corporate equal protection challenges to living wage laws?Read More
Free Speech For People Welcomes Scott Greytak as Counsel Posted on February 1, 2016 (February 1, 2016) Free Speech For People is pleased to announce Scott Greytak will join our Legal Advocacy Program as Counsel. Read More
Bill Moyers: It’s Time For the President to Make Federal Contractors Disclose their Political Spending. Posted on January 28, 2016 (September 4, 2018) In a column posted to his website, journalist and political commenter, Bill Moyers reported on President Barack Obama’s relationship with money in politics.Read More
Washington Voters To Decide on Campaign Finance Reform Posted on January 27, 2016 (January 27, 2016) This week, the Washington Secretary of State certified I-735, and the initiative will now go before voters.Read More
John Bonifaz At Brookings Event On Solutions To Citizens United Posted on January 25, 2016 (February 2, 2016) On the sixth anniversary of Citizens United, momentum grows in favor of solutions AT “The Campaign Finance Crisis in America and How to Fix It: A Solutions Summit.”Read More
On Citizens United, “If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Beat ‘Em” Says Ret. Justice James Nelson Posted on January 22, 2016 Retired Montana Supreme Court Justice and Free Speech For People Board Member, James C. Nelson shared a guest post to the American Constitution Society’s law blog.Read More
Derek Cressman: Why Victory in the Fight Against Big Money Is Closer Than You Think Posted on January 22, 2016 (January 22, 2016) In his newly released book, When Money Talks, Cressman explains how our current political system is broken and what can be done to fix it. Read the Q/A from the author.Read More
Ron Fein: “It’s Time For Campaign Finance Reformers To Move From Defense To Offense” Posted on January 21, 2016 (January 23, 2023) Free Speech For People’s Legal Director, Ron Fein shares a guest post on the American Constitution Society Blog.Read More
BREAKING: CA Legislature Petitions CA Supreme Court For Rehearing In Prop 49 Case On Ballot Measure To Overturn Citizens United Posted on January 20, 2016 (January 20, 2016) On January 19, 2016 , the California Legislature petitioned the California Supreme Court, asking that they modify their January 4 ruling in the case of Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v. Padilla, by restoring Proposition 49, The Overturn Citizens United Act, back to the ballot.Read More
Michele Sutter: Prop. 49 Should Go Straight to November ballot Posted on January 14, 2016 (October 2, 2018) Michele Sutter, co-founder of Money Out Voters In, the sponsors of the bill that became Proposition 49, authored an op-ed featured today to The Sacramento Bee. Click to read the full article. Read More