Category: Challenging Corruption

Washington, DC. Today, DC Vote sent a letter signed by 77 organizations to Congress urging members to reject President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of DC and cosponsor and pass the DC statehood bill instead. The letter may be found here. The co-signing organizations include local and national groups that focus on democracy, voting rights, good governance, and
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Free Speech For People is calling for state criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s extortion of nearly $1 billion in legal services from at least nine law firms. FSFP Legal Director Courtney Hostetler joined legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner on Justice Matters this week to discuss our call for criminal accountability in
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Free Speech For People joined more than 30 human rights groups to urge congressional leaders to block  Trump’s plan to use military force against drug cartels in Latin America. As reported in the Intercept: More than 30 humanitarian, public interest, immigrant rights, faith-based, veterans’ advocacy, and drug policy reform groups are calling on Congress to oppose the use of
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Free Speech For People (FSFP) has formally requested that the Attorneys General of California and New York and the District Attorneys of Manhattan and Los Angeles initiate criminal investigations into Donald Trump’s scheme to obtain millions of dollars from Paramount Global and Skydance Media and to force changes to the news and entertainment content of
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New Letters Follow Similar Letters Free Speech For People Issued to State and Local Prosecutors in New York and Pennsylvania (BOSTON, MA) – Free Speech For People, a national non-profit legal advocacy organization, submitted letters today to the Attorneys General of California, Illinois, and Massachusetts, and the relevant district attorneys in each jurisdiction, to launch
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(New York, NY) – Free Speech For People, a national non-profit legal advocacy organization, filed formal requests with the Attorneys General of New York and Pennsylvania, and the District Attorneys of Manhattan and Philadelphia to launch criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s extortion and coercion of nearly $1 billion in legal services from at least
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John Bonifaz and Alexandra Flores-Quilty have a new op-ed in Mass Live urging Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan to investigate whether the abduction and detention of Rümeysa Öztürk violated Massachusetts criminal law. They write:  During a recent appearance on GBH’s Boston Public Radio, AG Campbell stated that
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Free Speech For People and pro bono co-counsel Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP yesterday filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support of plaintiffs who are challenging Trump’s unconstitutional attempt to strip citizenship from American-born children on the basis of their parents’ immigration status, in clear defiance of
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Broad Coalition Sounds the Alarm on the Administration’s Politicization of Law Enforcement and Attacks on Judicial Independence WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan by the Trump administration, Free Speech For People joined over 80 organizations and released the following statement warning about the administration’s dangerous politicization of law
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