New Letters Urge Chief Election Officials to Abide by the Constitution and Bar Trump from the Ballot in Arizona and Maine Posted on September 18, 2023 Challenging Corruption Under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, Trump’s incitement of the January 6th insurrection bars him from holding public office. Free Speech For People (FSFP) and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) issued letters today to Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, urging them to abide by theRead More
Minnesota Voters Challenge Trump’s Eligibility to Appear on Primary Ballot Under Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause Posted on September 12, 2023 (October 5, 2023) Challenging Corruption Led by Free Speech For People, a nonpartisan legal advocacy organization, the lawsuit argues the former president is disqualified from holding public office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment for his role in inciting and facilitating the January 6th insurrection. ST. PAUL, MN (September 12, 2023) – Free Speech For People, on behalf ofRead More
Free Speech For People’s Statement on Florida Caplan v. Trump ruling Posted on September 1, 2023 (September 4, 2023) Challenging Corruption On August 31, a federal judge in Florida dismissed a lawsuit filed by a tax attorney, representing himself pro se, who challenged Donald Trump’s eligibility for office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court ruled, unsurprisingly, that federal courts do not have jurisdiction over such claims, which (in federal court) require plaintiffs toRead More
FSFP Senior Advisor on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh Discusses Coffee County Voting System Software Breach on The Ron Show Podcast Posted on August 31, 2023 Election Protection FSFP Senior Advisor on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh recently appeared on The Ron Show Podcast to discuss the Trump campaign’s multi-state plot to access and steal copies of voting system software from Coffee County, Georgia, and the lack of a federal investigation into the matter. The following is an excerpt from the discussion: The informationRead More
“Trump is Ineligible to Appear on the Presidential Primary Ballot,” Letters Urge Chief Election Officials to Abide by the Constitution and Bar Trump from the Ballot Posted on August 30, 2023 (August 30, 2023) Challenging Corruption Under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, Trump’s incitement of the January 6th insurrection bars him from holding public office. BOSTON, MA (August 30, 2023) – Free Speech For People (FSFP) and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) issued letters today to Secretaries of State and chief election officials in five states, urging them toRead More
To Help Protect The Democracy For The People Act, Free Speech For People Files Motion To Intervene Posted on August 25, 2023 (September 6, 2023) Challenging Foreign Influence Free Speech For People, on behalf of Clean Elections Minnesota, defends against challenge to law banning political spending by foreign-influenced corporations. ST. PAUL, MN (August 25, 2023) – Free Speech For People, on behalf of Clean Elections Minnesota, today filed court papers to intervene in a corporate lobby’s lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of Minnesota’sRead More
RECAP: Actions Across the Country Coincides With Letters to Secretaries of State Urging Them to Uphold Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and Bar Trump from the Ballot. Posted on August 15, 2023 Challenging Corruption Last month, Free Speech For People and MiFamilia Vota launched a series of actions to mark the 155th anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and to urge election officials across the country to enforce Section 3 of that constitutional amendment, also known as the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, and bar Donald Trump from theRead More
Advocates Win Security, Transparency Improvements in Pennsylvania Elections, Settlement reached with Secretary of State Schmidt in voting machine lawsuit Posted on August 14, 2023 (October 25, 2023) Election Protection HARRISBURG, PA – Election security advocates from the National Election Defense Coalition and the Pennsylvania-based Citizens for Better Elections have entered into a binding legal settlement with Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt. The settlement resolves a legal challenge to the ES&S ExpressVote XL voting machines used for in-person voting in Philadelphia, Northampton, and CumberlandRead More
FSFP President John Bonifaz Featured in The Nation Magazine: “The Biggest Threat to Donald Trump Could Be the Constitution Itself” Posted on August 4, 2023 Challenging Corruption The Nation recently published a new article on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and the question of whether or not former president Trump can be disqualified from the ballot. The piece features FSFP President John Bonifaz discussing the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause and the ongoing campaign to pressure chief election officials to abide by theRead More
Free Speech For People and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund’s Statement on the U.S. Justice Department’s Criminal Indictment of Donald Trump Posted on August 1, 2023 (August 1, 2023) Challenging Corruption Free Speech For People (a national nonpartisan public interest legal advocacy organization that, in 2022, filed the first challenges, and conducted the first trial under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause in 150 years) and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (a national civic engagement non-profit organization that unites Latino, immigrant, and allied communities to promoteRead More