Announcing: The Constitution Demands It Posted on July 10, 2018 (August 20, 2018) Written by Free Speech For People Legal Director Ron Fein, Co-Founder and President John Bonifaz, and Chair of the Board of Directors Ben Clements, with a foreword by The Nation’s national affairs correspondent John Nichols, The Constitution Demands It argues that the time to talk about impeachment is now, and offers a precise case against President Trump.Read More
Facebook Livestream Event and Big Announcement Tomorrow! Posted on July 9, 2018 What are the legal and Constitutional grounds for impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump? Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 10th from 2:30-3:30 pm ET, Free Speech For People will co-host a Facebook Live panel with Need To Impeach on the legal grounds for impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. You can view the live video on our Facebook page.Read More
How Big Money Shackles Immigration Policy Posted on July 5, 2018 In December 2016, Free Speech For People released the report “Private Prisons and Political Contributions: How Big Money Shackles Immigration Policy.” The bilingual report was authored by Democracy Honors Fellow Jasmine Gomez and Demos’ Pamela Cataldo, and explored the effects of money in politics on immigration and the prison industry. The report found that privateRead More
No Supreme Court Confirmation Until Impeachment Hearings and Criminal Investigation Have Concluded Posted on June 28, 2018 (June 28, 2018) Impeachment We call upon the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to postpone the confirmation hearings for any potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court until both Congressional impeachment proceedings and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation have concluded. This is the first time in American history that a president’s campaign has been under criminal investigation for potentialRead More
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club decision, seven years later Posted on June 27, 2018 (June 28, 2018) Democracy Amendments June 27 marks the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, which struck down key portions of Arizona’s public campaign financing law as supposedly violating the First Amendment. This blog post for the decision’s anniversary was drafted by Ryan Gorman, a student at Harvard Law SchoolRead More
New ground for impeachment hearings: cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of children and their families Posted on June 22, 2018 (June 22, 2018) Impeachment We have added a new ground to our call for Congress to start hearings on whether to impeach President Trump: cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of adults and children. Background As we noted in our statement earlier this week, under Trump’s dictate, several thousand children have been seized from their families—who were often told that theirRead More
Watch Now: Senior Counsel Shanna Cleveland on Rise Up with Sonali Posted on June 19, 2018 Senior Counsel Shanna Cleveland joined Sonali Kolhatkar to discuss Free Speech For People’s recent call to the FEC and the US Department of Justice to investigate whether a $1.6 million hush money payment was actually intended to cover up an affair between President Trump and another former Playboy model to prevent the story from damaging the President’sRead More
Our Statement on President Trump’s Policy of Breaking Up Families and Imprisoning Children Posted on June 18, 2018 Impeachment We at Free Speech For People are disgusted by Donald Trump’s policy of breaking up families and imprisoning migrant children. Under Trump’s policy, children are seized from their families—who are often told that their children are just “bathing”—and warehoused in mass orphanages indefinitely while their parents are left unaware of their whereabouts. While there areRead More
New Brief in the Case that Could End Super PACs Posted on June 14, 2018 (June 13, 2018) On Wednesday night, we filed our brief responding to the Federal Election Commission’s motion to dismiss in Lieu v. FEC, the case that could end super PACs. As explained in more detail here, we filed this lawsuit on behalf of a bipartisan coalition of Members of Congress and 2016 congressional candidates. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court inRead More
New FEC Complaint from Free Speech For People Seeks Investigation of Potential Broidy Bombshell Posted on June 13, 2018 (June 26, 2018) Free Speech For People calls on the Federal Election Commission and the US Justice Department to immediately investigate whether a $1.6 million hush money payment violated federal campaign finance law. Today, Free Speech For People announced that it filed a complaint before the Federal Election Commission and a letter with the United States Department of Justice onRead More