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!
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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 get
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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 House
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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.
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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. Valeo
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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 that
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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.
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Need To Impeach and Free Speech For People hosted a press conference last month ahead of an impeach Trump advocacy day on Capitol Hill where 300 citizens from across the country met with their Members of Congress to deliver draft articles of impeachment and copies of the book The Constitution Demands It: The Case For
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A federal appeals court will soon have the opportunity to review its 2010 ruling which created super PACs, following a federal district court decision on February 28 in a case led by Members of Congress seeking to end super PAC spending in U.S. elections. Lieu v. Federal Election Commission, which was filed in federal district
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State legislators in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have introduced resolutions calling on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings now against President Trump, citing 10 legal grounds for impeachment. BOSTON, MA (Wednesday, February 27) – Massachusetts and Pennsylvania legislators have introduced resolutions calling on Congress to start impeachment proceedings now against President Donald Trump. The resolutions cite ten
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