Free Speech For People Seeking to Hire Public Interest Attorney Posted on October 4, 2021 (October 4, 2021) FSFP Updates Free Speech For People is seeking a public interest attorney, preferably with social justice, campaign finance, and/or election law experience, to join a cutting-edge non-profit. Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan nonprofit organization, was founded on the day of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC decision in January 2010. We’ve been working since then onRead More
FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements Authors New Oped on Why The DOJ Must Reject Calls For President Biden’s Antitrust Nominee to Recuse Himself from The Department’s Case Against Tech Titans. Posted on October 1, 2021 (October 1, 2021) Corporate Abuse of Power CommonDreams recently published a new oped by FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements on why the Department Of Justice must reject calls for President Biden’s nominee for Associate Attorney General for Antitrust, Jonathan Kanter, to recuse himself from the Department’s case against Google and other tech titans. In the new piece, Clements notesRead More
FSFP President John Bonifaz Discusses Legal Strategies For Getting Money Out of Politics With the BOLD ReThink Project. Posted on September 30, 2021 Defending Key Reforms FSFP President John Bonifaz recently participated in a virtual discussion with the BOLD ReThink, a public advocacy project focused on democracy reform, about innovative legal strategies for getting money out of politics and preserving a democracy of, by, and for the people. “The right to vote is a right to participate in the political processRead More
FSFP Senior Advisor On Election Security Susan Greenhalgh Co-Authors New Oped With Professor J. Alex Halderman In Newsweek On How The Big Lie Masks Legitimate Election Security Concerns and Inhibits Important Reforms. Posted on September 29, 2021 Election Protection Newsweek recently published a new oped by FSFP Senior Advisor On Election Security Susan Greenhalgh and Professor J. Alex Halderman on how the Big Lie inhibits important reforms needed to better secure voting systems across the country. The oped underscores the fact that there is abundant evidence that confirms the fact that the 2020 electionRead More
MI FAMILIA VOTA AND INDIVIDUAL VOTERS SUE TO BLOCK NEW VOTER SUPPRESSION LAW IN TEXAS Posted on September 27, 2021 (October 26, 2021) Election Protection The complaint targets SB 1, one of the country’s most restrictive voting laws, for violating the Constitution’s First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. SAN ANTONIO, TX (September 27, 2021) – Non-profit civic engagement organization Mi Familia Vota, along with individual voters, filed suit today in the United States DistrictRead More
VIDEO: The Ongoing Fight To Abolish Super PACs and Prohibit Foreign-Influenced Corporate Spending in State Elections. Posted on September 23, 2021 (October 1, 2021) Challenging Foreign Influence In March 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in SpeechNow.org v. FEC opened the door to super PACs by holding that the federal law limiting contributions to political committees to $5,000 per person each year could not be applied to a political committee that promised to make only “independent expenditures.” At the sameRead More
Experts Urge EAC to Enforce Firm Transition to New Voting System Standards. Posted on September 23, 2021 Election Protection Over a dozen leading computer and election security experts wrote to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to urge the agency to adopt a firm policy to phase out old, outdated voting system standards, in a letter organized by Free Speech For People. The EAC is responsible for running the federal voting system testing andRead More
Abolish Super PACs, Ban Foreign Corporate Money: State Legislators Hear Testimony on Bills to Protect Election Integrity in Massachusetts. Posted on September 15, 2021 Challenging Super PACs BOSTON, MA – As multinational corporations like Uber and Lyft prepare to push a new ballot measure in Massachusetts that would define their drivers as independent contractors, state legislators will hear public testimony today on bills to abolish super PACs and to prohibit spending by foreign-influenced corporations in Massachusetts elections. The hearing, before the JointRead More
The Supreme Court is Attacking Our Voting Rights Posted on September 15, 2021 (October 26, 2021) Election Protection The Supreme Court gutted the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act twice. First, in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, they stripped away the preclearance provision that protected voting rights in states with a history of voter suppression. Then this summer, in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, Justice Alito issued a majority opinion underminingRead More
Expand the Supreme Court. Pass the Judiciary Act. Posted on September 9, 2021 (September 13, 2021) Challenging Corruption Last week, the Supreme Court refused to stop a Texas law banning abortions after six weeks (before many women know they’re pregnant), violating the constitutional right to choose and establishing a dangerous precedent that could overturn Roe v. Wade and pave the way for states across the country to aggressively strip away our civil rights.Read More