Free Speech For People Joins Allies Supporting Transparency in Presidential Pardons Posted on March 21, 2019 (March 21, 2019) Today, a coalition of organizations including Protect Democracy, Free Speech For People, and others sent a letter to Congressman Adam Schiff, who has introduced a bill designed to improve transparency in presidential pardons. The key part of Schiff’s bill says: In the event that the President grants an individual a pardon for an offense againstRead More
Appeal Filed, Federal Appeals Court to Review a Case that Could End Super PACs Posted on March 18, 2019 Today, we filed a notice of appeal in Lieu v. Federal Election Commission, the case that could end super PACs. This notice of appeal starts the process by which the U.S. Court of Appeals will soon have the opportunity to review its 2010 ruling which created super PACs. Lieu v. Federal Election Commission, which wasRead More
Free Speech For People to Massachusetts Elections Agency: Close Campaign Finance Loophole Posted on March 15, 2019 Free Speech For People submitted a comment to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance urging it to close a longstanding, bureaucratically-created exception to the state’s campaign finance statutes. The arbitrary loophole allow politically savvy groups to avoid registering as political committees in Massachusetts while donating up to $15,000 directly to candidates. That’s 30Read More
Watch Now: John Bonifaz on Democracy Now! Posted on March 14, 2019 Thursday, March 14, Free Speech For People Co-Founder and President, John Bonifaz, was on Democracy Now! to make the case for why Congress must immediately begin impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. Watch the interview below and read the transcript on Democracy Now!Read More
HOW WE CAN END SUPER PACS, OVERTURN SPEECHNOW, AND ADVANCE A NEW JURISPRUDENCE ON MONEY IN POLITICS WITH THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT Posted on March 12, 2019 (June 9, 2020) Challenging Super PACs INTRODUCTION In 2015, Free Speech For People began developing a legal strategy to bring new test cases that could win at the Supreme Court, even under the Roberts Court as it existed at that time. These test cases were designed to make jurisprudential progress without challenging Citizens United, and assumed that we would need to getRead More
For The People Act Will Protect and Strengthen our Democracy Posted on March 12, 2019 (March 12, 2019) For too long, big money interests have been drowning out the voices of everyday Americans and corrupting our political process. And, combined with that, our right to vote today is under attack by voter suppression efforts across the country. Thanks to millions of people from all across the country demanding Congress take action, the HouseRead More
Watch The Case For Impeaching Trump Posted on March 11, 2019 (March 11, 2019) Impeachment Has President Trump committed impeachable offenses? Watch former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, Free Speech For People Legal Director Ron Fein, and Fordham Law Professor Jed Shugerman discuss the case for impeaching Trump.Read More
Will New Hampshire Become the 20th State to Call for a 28th Amendment? Posted on March 7, 2019 The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted today to pass HB504 to end big money in politics and partisan gerrymandering. The bi-partisan legislation puts New Hampshire on track to be the twentieth state to call on Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and Buckley v. ValeoRead More
Rep. Rashida Tlaib Plans to Introduce a Resolution to Start Impeachment Proceedings Against President Trump Posted on March 7, 2019 At a press conference held on Wednesday, March 6, Representative Rashida Tlaib announced that she plans to file a resolution this month to start an impeachment investigation of President Trump. Representative Tlaib emphasized the urgency of impeachment and addressed concerns: “I think every single colleague of mine agrees there’s impeachable offenses. That’s one thing thatRead More
Ron Fein on the Thom Hartmann Program: The Case that Could End Super PACs Posted on March 4, 2019 Our Legal Director Ron Fein joined Thom Hartmann on March 4 to discuss new developments in Lieu v. Federal Election Commission, the case that could end super PACs. Watch the video below. Read more about our broader efforts to challenge super PACs and the SpeechNow decision that created them.Read More