Category: Challenging Corruption

On October 29, the Chicago Tribune published an article about Free Speech For People’s effort to pressure state and local prosecutors to hold Trump accountable for violations of state criminal law. The article includes responses from state prosecutors:   In letters sent this week to Gov. JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Cook County State’s
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Washington, D.C. — With just over a week to go, organizers and participants are preparing for the March for Health & Science.  A growing coalition of health, science, and democracy groups will march to the Department of Health and Human Services to demand the removal of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 
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New Filing Urges Attorney General, State’s Attorney, and Chicago Police Superintendent to Launch Criminal Investigations into Federal Agents for Unlawful Assaults, Detentions, and Political Retaliation Against Illinois Residents CHICAGO, IL (October 27, 2025) Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan legal advocacy organization, today filed a formal request urging Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Cook
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Twenty-two years ago, Congress created a heavily armed militia, put it under the control of the President, and aimed it at some of our country’s most vulnerable residents. And at every turn—as refugees die in detention, children are ripped from their parents’ arms, people are dragged from their homes and cars, protesters are beaten and
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On October 3, 2025, Free Speech For People submitted an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support of Dr. Badar Khan Suri and his right to have his writ of habeas corpus heard by a U.S. federal district court. Without this right, the Trump Administration will be able
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Baltimore, MD (September 16, 2025) – Free Speech For People and Progressive Maryland have formally requested that Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown and State’s Attorney Tara H. Jackson open a criminal investigation into the unlawful kidnapping of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia by federal immigration officers. The request, detailed in a letter sent on July
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FSFP applauds Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie for introducing the Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R. 4405), and urges Congress to promptly pass the bill into law. The U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump Administration is concealing thousands of documents, protecting wealthy and powerful individuals associated with Jeffrey Epstein—including Trump himself—at the expense of
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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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