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Following Serious Failure of New Voting Machines in Northampton County, Citizens’ Groups Reaffirm Call for Decertification of Controversial ExpressVote XL Voting Machines
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Election Protection

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 the contentious voting system. The National Election Defense Coalition, Citizens for Better Elections, Free Speech
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Amazon vs. Democracy: Foreign Influence In The Seattle City Council Elections
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Challenging Foreign Influence

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 without Amazon’s backing. As Rachel Lauter, executive director of the Working Washington advocacy group, said
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Statement of Free Speech For People Regarding Passage of H. Res. 660
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Impeachment

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 its ongoing impeachment inquiry. However, we continue to be concerned that the House’s process is
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Expose the cover-up
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Impeachment

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 are “politically sensitive.” The White House placed in that system the transcript of the July
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Ron Fein & Laurence Tribe In The Boston Globe: House Should Expand the Scope of Its Impeachment Inquiry To Include Trump’s Abuse Of the Pardon Power 
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Impeachment

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. Citing Trump’s unlawful pardon of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in 2017, they argue that
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EPA gifts a domestic emolument to Trump’s golf courses
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Challenging Corruption

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 his presidency, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a violation of the Constitution’s Domestic
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Bill to close presidential pardon loophole sent to New York governor for signature
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Challenging Corruption

UPDATE: On October 16, 2019, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law.  The New York state legislature has sent a bill to Governor Cuomo that would close New York’s presidential pardon loophole. Background New York state’s double jeopardy statute may currently allow certain defendants pardoned by the president for their federal crimes
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Trump’s War in Yemen Against Congressional Opposition is an Impeachable Offense
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Impeachment

Six months after Congress expressly disapproved US military action in Yemen, the war continues unabated. Congress has additional tools available to restrict or end US involvement. But as Congress’s impeachment inquiry moves forward, there’s another question: Is President Trump’s ongoing prosecution of military action in Yemen in defiance of congressional opposition a ground for impeachment?
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Watch: John Bonifaz and Chris Hedges Debate Impeachment on Democracy Now!
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Impeachment

Free Speech For People President John Bonifaz joined Democracy Now! this week for a debate with journalist Chris Hedges on whether or not Congress should impeach President Trump.  House leadership reached a breaking point last month when a whistleblower disclosed that Trump had solicited foreign assistance from the Ukrainian Government to help him in his
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#ImpeachNow: A Historic Moment In Our Fight To Hold Trump Accountable
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Impeachment

We have reached a historic moment in the movement to hold Donald Trump accountable for his high crimes via the impeachment process. 224 Members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are now on record supporting an impeachment inquiry of the president. More than 80 Members of Congress, including the Speaker, joined that call last
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