Tampa Bay Times: Is the Sunshine City headed to the U.S. Supreme Court? Posted on October 5, 2017 (February 7, 2018) After four hours of debate, the St. Petersburg City Council voted to become a pioneer in local campaign finance reform Thursday and likely invited a legal challenge that could end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.Read More
St. Petersburg City Council Votes to Abolish Super PACs and Limit Foreign Corporate Money in Local Elections Posted on October 5, 2017 (October 6, 2017) The St. Petersburg City Council voted to abolish super PACs and prohibit spending by foreign-influenced corporations in city elections. St. Petersburg is the first community in the country to pass a law of this kind.Read More
Statement By Free Speech For People On The Criminal Investigation By The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Into Donald Trump Jr. And Ivanka Trump Posted on October 4, 2017 (October 3, 2018) In response to today’s news story about a criminal investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office into Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump for criminal fraud arising from the Trump SoHo project, Free Speech For People issues the following statement. Read More
TIME: Ron Fein and Nixon Lawyer – Donald Trump Abused Pardon Power When He Freed Joe Arpaio Posted on October 3, 2017 (October 3, 2018) In an op-ed posted online to TIME, co-authored by our Legal Director Ron Fine and John W. Dean, White House counsel to President Richard M. Nixon from 1970 to 1973, outline Trump’s abuse of power by pardoning former Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Read More
Mass Live: Advocates try to prevent foreign meddling in Massachusetts elections Posted on September 27, 2017 (October 3, 2018) Three Massachusetts bills, S 394, H 2081 and H 2904, would prohibit foreign-influenced companies from making political expenditures — here is what you need to know. Read More
A New Environmental Protection Agency Rule to Benefit Trump Inc., Public Interest Groups Urge the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to Reconsider Posted on September 27, 2017 (September 27, 2017) Over 7,000 citizens submitted comments to the EPA warning that a new proposed rule to rescind the definition of the “waters of the United States” would confer financial benefit to President Trump and would be unconstitutional.Read More
Ron Fein & Laurence Tribe in Boston Globe: How Massachusetts can fight foreign influence in our elections Posted on September 26, 2017 (October 3, 2018) The Boston Globe has just posted an op-ed by our Legal Director Ron Fein & Prof. Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School, entitled “How Massachusetts can fight foreign influence in our elections.” Read More
Constitutional Lawyers, Scholars, and Public Interest Groups Call on Justice Gorsuch Not to Speak at the Trump International Hotel Posted on September 26, 2017 (October 3, 2018) Days before Justice Gorsuch is to deliver a speech at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., a coalition of constitutional lawyers, scholars, and public interest groups re-issued an open letter urging him to cancel his speech due to conflicts of interest with appearing at a hotel owned, through LLCs and a revocable trust, by President Trump. Read More
Watch FSFP Board Chair Ben Clements on “Greater Boston” Make the Case for an Impeachment Investigation Posted on September 21, 2017 (November 29, 2018) Watch this discussion on WGBH-TV’s Greater Boston show where Free Speech For People Board Chair Ben Clements makes the case for an impeachment investigation of President Trump.Read More
Boston Globe: “An open letter to Congress: Impeach Trump” Posted on September 19, 2017 (October 3, 2018) Today, the Boston Globe published an open letter to Congress, signed by activists around Massachusetts calling for an impeachment investigation of President Trump. Read More