Latest Developments

Free Speech For People issued today a statement in response to the personal attorney to Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, pleading guilty on eight criminal charges. These charges include violations of the Federal Campaign Finance Act for hush money payments made at the request of Donald Trump for the purpose of influencing the 2016 election. Michael
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Our new book The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump, was released Tuesday, August 14th. You can purchase the book now here. The book was 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
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Miles Mogulescu reviews our new book, The Constitution Demands It, for Common Dreams and details the current constitutional crisis facing the country. Millions of Americans sit helplessly by as an unfit, narcissistic, ignorant, pathologically lying, misogynistic, racist, xenophobic President allies himself with Russia and Putin against our government. He does nothing to protect American elections
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Jessica Kwong of Newsweek discusses our new book, The Constitution Demands It, and the case for beginning impeachment proceedings against the President. Congress, which has the authority to begin impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump has been reluctant to act, awaiting the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation, among other things. But in
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On August 8, 2018, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James introduced a proposed local law that prohibits foreign-influenced entities from spending money in New York City elections. We worked closely with the NYC Public Advocate’s office in drafting this legislation, modeled off of a similar law we recently helped to enact in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, penned a letter to our supporters calling on Congress to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against the President. The President’s policy of separating immigrant children is yet another gross violation of the Constitution on top of many other abuses of power.  Ms. Milano recommends our new book, The Constitution Demands It,
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July 28 marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 14th Amendment not only granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, but it granted all people equal protection of the laws. The historical context surrounding its creation and ratification bears striking
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On July 27, 2018, Free Speech For People joined with over a dozen public interest groups to urge the Internal Revenue Service to pursue an investigation of the Trump Foundation for possible criminal acts. “Our laws grant tax-exempt status to foundations and other charitable organizations on the condition that they operate exclusively for charitable purposes—not
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Free Speech For People Board Chair Ben Clements joined Tom Steyer, Founder of Need to Impeach, at a Town Hall event in Boston on July 14 to discuss the grounds for impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump and to announce the new book, The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump, now
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