Category: Challenging Corruption

“Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire, and DOGE are operating outside of the law. ”  WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and Public Citizen, along with more than 110 organizations, called on Congress today to swiftly investigate Elon Musk and the lawless takeover of the federal government by his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Reports allege that Musk’s team, which has
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Washington, D.C. (January 9, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement following a report that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with President-elect Donald Trump, one day before Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to delay his sentencing in his New York hush-money case: Yesterday, we learned
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Following an interview with John Bonifaz, Dean Obeidallah posted his analysis of the Trump Presidency on his substack:  Imagine a very popular 25-year-old–who was born in another country–won the election for U.S. President and was sworn in. Would that election victory override Article II of the US Constitution that mandates, “No person…shall be eligible to
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Four years ago today, Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection in an attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, defeated federal law enforcement, conquered the seat of our national government, nearly assassinated the vice president and key congressional leaders, and blocked Congress from certifying his electoral
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Earlier this week, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal, both members of the Senate’s Armed Services Committee, urged President Biden to issue a policy directive to prohibit the unlawful mobilization of our military against Americans. The letter explains that a long-standing law prohibits any part of the Armed Forces from executing the law absent Constitutional
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WASHINGTON D.C. – Free Speech For People joined 70 national civil rights and pro-democracy organizations in sending a joint letter to the Senate, demanding that it uphold its critical constitutional responsibility to advise and consent on presidential nominations to the executive and judicial branches. The letter delivery was organized and led by People For the
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SPRINGFIELD, OH (October 18, 2024)—Attorneys with Free Speech For People and Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym issued a joint letter today to Daniel Driscoll, the Clark County prosecutor, in support of the Haitian Bridge Alliance’s recently-filed complaint seeking criminal charges against Donald Trump and JD Vance for dangerous, inflammatory, and repeated lies about the
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A new law review article, titled Sweeping Section Three under the Rug: A Comment on Trump v. Anderson, revisits the March 2024 Supreme Court decision that states cannot enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment (the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause) against federal candidates seeking to appear on their state ballots. Written by renowned legal scholars William
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