John Bonifaz: Clinton’s Shift on Campaign Finance and Why We Need a 28th Amendment Posted on September 17, 2015 (October 2, 2018) Democracy Amendments Free Speech For People Co-Founder and President, John Bonifaz is featured in The Hill addressing the growing movement in support of a 28th Amendment to reclaim our republic from the unlimited spending in our elections. Read More
Money In Politics as a Civil Rights Issue A Special Forum in Durham, North Carolina Posted on September 11, 2015 (June 11, 2020) Defending Key Reforms Free Speech For People in partnership with Democracy North Carolina The Institute For Southern StudiesNorth Carolina Voters For Clean ElectionsSouthern Coalition for Social Justiceand the American Constitution Society law student chapters at Duke Law School,NCCU School of Law, and UNC School of Law This special forum entitled “Money In Politics as a Civil Rights Issue”, was hosted at the HaytiRead More
FSFP Partners With Democracy For All Video Contest Posted on September 9, 2015 (September 9, 2015) In collaboration with a network of partners, Free Speech For People joined Say No to Big Money and People For the American Way, to co-sponsor the Democracy For All Video Challenge, a contest bringing awareness to a constitutional amendment to overturn cases like Citizens United.Read More
Free Speech For People’s Statement On Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Finance Platform Posted on September 8, 2015 (September 8, 2015) On September 8, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released her campaign finance platform, which will address issues of money in politics especially related to the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. Free Speech For People Co-Founder and President provided a statement on our behalf. Read More
Fighting Big Money, Empowering People: A 21st Century Democracy Agenda Posted on September 5, 2015 (September 7, 2015) Democracy Amendments Free Speech For People joined our allies in endorsing a 21st Century Democracy Agenda for potential Presidential candidates. A full report is available after the jump. Read More
Demos Blog: The Gatekeeper Class Posted on September 5, 2015 (September 5, 2015) New blog via Demos writes of an era of crushing racial and economic injustice, we need a campaign finance system that allows everyone an equal chance to sit at the table as policymakers. Candidates should be filtered by all Americans, not just by the Gatekeeper Class. Read More
Massachusetts Court Refuses to Strike Down Longstanding Ban on Corporate Political Contributions Posted on September 3, 2015 (September 3, 2015) A Massachusetts judge rejected a recent corporate challenge to the state’s longstanding ban on corporate political contributions to candidates, ruling that the corporate challenge “flies in the face of years of U.S. Supreme Court and U. S. Court of Appeals jurisprudence upholding such a ban.” Read More
Latest Developments in Montana Contribution Limits Case Posted on September 2, 2015 (September 3, 2015) On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order denying Montana’s petition for rehearing en banc in Montana’s contribution limits case. Ron Fein provides a quick background and our analysis after the jump.Read More
Corporations Continue to Claim Constitutional Rights in Seattle Living Wage Case Posted on September 2, 2015 (September 2, 2015) This Tuesday, lawyers argued before a federal appeals court panel in Seattle, to contend whether the city’s new minimum wage violates the equal protection rights of franchised business corporations. Free Speech For People filed an amicus brief in support of the city, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause protects people, not corporations, and in particular that living wages were a central concern of the Fourteenth Amendment’s drafters. Our local counsel in Seattle, Harry Williams, attended the oral argument and submits this report.Read More
FSFP Launches New Blog To Lift Up Republican Voices Against Money In Politics Posted on September 1, 2015 (September 9, 2016) Free Speech For People recently launched acrosstheaisle.us as an interactive blog to share the thoughts of more than 150 Republican officials, prominent at the federal and state level, who oppose Citizens United. Read More