Reps. Lee, Khanna, Colleagues Unveil Bill to Abolish Super PACs Posted on March 26, 2025 (March 26, 2025) Challenging Super PACs WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 26, 2025 — Today, on the anniversary of the SpeechNow.org v. FEC D.C. Circuit Court decision, Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12), Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17), Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-02), Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), along with Representatives Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), Chris Deluzio (PA-17), and Delia Ramirez (IL-03), introduced the Abolish Super PACsRead More
Free Speech For People Files Amicus Brief in Defense of Maine’s Ballot Initiative to End Super PACs Posted on February 21, 2025 (March 3, 2025) Challenging Super PACs Portland, ME (February 21, 2025) – Free Speech For People and local counsel Peter J. Brann, on behalf of Mainers For Working Families (MFWF), filed today an amicus brief in federal district court in Portland in support of Maine’s law limiting contributions to political action committees, effectively ending super PACs. The law, enacted as aRead More
Victory! Maine becomes the first state to eliminate super PACs Posted on November 7, 2024 (November 22, 2024) Challenging Super PACs On November 5, 2024, an overwhelming majority of Mainers voted to limit annual contributions to super PACs from individuals, businesses, and other PACs to $5,000 in a calendar year. Free Speech For People has helped lead the movement to end super PACs nationwide and strongly endorsed this initiative. We congratulate Maine Citizens to End SuperPACsRead More
Free Speech For People Endorses Maine Ballot Initiative to End Super PACs Posted on August 27, 2024 (September 9, 2024) Challenging Super PACs Free Speech For People is proud to endorse and support a citizen initiative to abolish super PAC spending in state elections in Maine. The ballot initiative committee, led by Maine Citizens to End Super PACs collected over 76,000 signatures in support of a referendum to limit annual contributions to super PACs from individuals, businesses, andRead More
Free Speech For People’s Statement on Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in Case Challenging Super PACs Posted on May 16, 2023 Challenging Super PACs Today the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts dismissed Herrmann v. Attorney General, the lawsuit brought by Free Speech For People and Equal Citizens on behalf of ten Massachusetts voters challenging the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office decision to reject a ballot initiative petition to end super PACs in Massachusetts elections. The ballot petition proposed a limitRead More
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Hears Oral Arguments on The Proposed Ballot Measure to Ban Super PACs in Massachusetts Posted on February 7, 2023 (February 7, 2023) Challenging Super PACs Free Speech For People and Equal Citizens appeared before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court yesterday for oral arguments in two lawsuits on behalf of individual voters in the state challenging the Massachusetts Attorney General’s rejection of an initiative petition to limit contributions to super PACs (which are currently unlimited) to $5,000 per individual donor. TheRead More
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to Hear Oral Arguments over Proposed Ballot Measure to Limit Super PAC Contributions Posted on January 31, 2023 (January 31, 2023) Challenging Super PACs The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear oral arguments on February 6 from legal advocates challenging the Attorney General’s rejection of Initiative Petition 22-01 in two distinct lawsuits. The petition called for a ballot initiative that, if passed, would limit contributions to independent expenditure PACs, commonly called “super PACs,” to $5,000 per individual per calendarRead More
Legal Advocates File Two Challenges In Support of Proposed Ballot Measure to Ban Super PACs in Massachusetts Posted on October 24, 2022 Challenging Super PACs Free Speech For People and Equal Citizens filed court challenges to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s refusal to certify a petition initiative that would end super PAC spending in Massachusetts elections. BOSTON, MA (October 24, 2022) – On behalf of individual Massachusetts voters, Free Speech For People and Equal Citizens today filed two lawsuits in theRead More
Indivisible, Free Speech For People, and PA-10 Constituents File Ethics Committee Complaint Against Rep. Perry for January 6 Involvement Posted on September 9, 2022 Challenging Corruption WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, working with Indivisible and Free Speech For People, constituents from Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District filed a complaint against Representative Scott Perry with the House Committee on Ethics over his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential elections. Following yesterday’s submission, the House Committee on Ethics will decide whether to establishRead More
Abolish Super PACs, Ban Foreign Corporate Money: State Legislators Hear Testimony on Bills to Protect Election Integrity in Massachusetts. Posted on September 15, 2021 Challenging Super PACs BOSTON, MA – As multinational corporations like Uber and Lyft prepare to push a new ballot measure in Massachusetts that would define their drivers as independent contractors, state legislators will hear public testimony today on bills to abolish super PACs and to prohibit spending by foreign-influenced corporations in Massachusetts elections. The hearing, before the JointRead More