Category: Election Protection

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently issued a powerful ruling that protects Arizona citizens from anti-voter provisions in two 2022 Arizona state laws, H.B. 2492 and H.B. 2243, and rejects the district court’s reliance on an impracticably high standard of proof for assessing whether the laws intentionally discriminated against naturalized citizens
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San Francisco, CA — Today, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a previous victory for voters in Arizona by ruling that two laws that suppress the rights of voters should remain blocked. Campaign Legal Center’s Danielle Lang, senior director, voting rights, released the following statement following the decision: “Our democracy works best when every American can participate
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Today, Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells filed a reply brief on behalf of Colorado Montana Wyoming State Area Conference of the NAACP (NAACP Colorado), League of Women Voters of Colorado (LWV Colorado), and Mi Familia Vota (MFV) in NAACP Colorado v. USEIP. This appeal challenges the dismissal of a lawsuit against the
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The NAACP Tri-State Conference of Idaho-Nevada-Utah last Friday moved to dismiss a lawsuit targeting the unlawful removal of thousands of lawfully registered citizens from the voter rolls in Nevada. The Tri-State NAACP, represented by Free Speech For People, Mayer Brown LLP, and local counsel Woodburn and Wedge, recently won the right to intervene as a
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On December 17, 2024, a Nevada state court ruled that the NAACP Tri-State Conference of Idaho-Nevada-Utah has “significant, protectable interests” in the outcome of a lawsuit to unlawfully purge Nevada’s voter rolls, and has granted its motion to intervene as a defendant in the case.  The lawsuit was filed by the Trump campaign and Republican
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Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. These groups, represented by Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells, filed their appeal brief last week, challenging the
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A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification.  Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessed
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Over the past several weeks, voters cast their votes to make their voices heard in the general elections. Votes were counted rapidly on election night — mostly by computers — to generate unofficial results. But counting votes is a process and the election night count is but one part of that process. The number of
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Yesterday, Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells filed our appeal brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on behalf of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. The appeal challenges the district court’s rulings that the United States Election Integrity Plan (USEIP) and three
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On October 31st, Free Speech For People sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry calling on her to take all appropriate and necessary steps to urgently remove Stefanie Lambert from representing Fulton County, Pennsylvania as “special counsel” for all elections and election-related matters. Lambert is a key figure in the effort to
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