Category: Challenging Corruption

BREAKING: The jury in the New York criminal trial has found disgraced ex-president Donald Trump guilty for falsifying business records related to hush-money payments he made to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an extra-marital affair, during the 2016 election campaign.  This should never have been left to the Manhattan District
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The New York Times reported last night that Justice Alito flew an upside-down American flag outside his house days before President Biden’s inauguration, a symbol of support for the January 6th insurrection and the “Stop the Steal” movement that spread the lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Even worse, at the time
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Free Speech For People today launched SCOTUS Reform Now, a comprehensive demand for accountability and reform within the United States Supreme Court to restore its legitimacy and integrity.  As reported by ProPublica, the Supreme Court has faced a wide range of scandals over the last several years that have tarnished the Court’s reputation. Investigative reporting
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On April 15, 2024, disgraced ex-president Donald Trump will face trial in a New York state courtroom for falsifying business records related to hush-money payments he made to buy the silence of a former mistress during the 2016 election campaign. It’s worth retracing how we got here: specifically, how both the Federal Election Commission and
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Free Speech For People joined more than a dozen pro-democracy advocates and watchdog organizations in an open letter highlighting former President Trump’s 34 felony counts in People of the State of New York v. Donald Trump and his criminal attempts at concealing secret payments and election interference. The letter is signed by Accountable.US, Clean Elections
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The U.S. Supreme Court today has made a mockery of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has ruled that–despite inciting and facilitating a violent insurrection that defeated federal law enforcement, conquered the seat of our national government, nearly assassinated the vice president and key congressional leaders, and blocked
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CHICAGO–In a historic ruling, Judge Tracie Porter of the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois ruled today that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and is disqualified from the presidency under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment (the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause). This makes Illinois the third state (after Colorado and Maine) to rule that Trump is
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Every court and state official that has addressed the merits of a challenge to Donald Trump’s eligibility under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment — in Colorado, Maine, and Illinois — has concluded that Trump engaged in insurrection. In 150 minutes of argument, no one, not Trump’s lawyer nor any of the Justices, seriously disputed
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Full Letter | Judicial Crisis Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Dear Leader Schumer and Chair Durbin, We write to express our grave concern regarding the revelations and allegations surrounding special interest judicial influence, corruption, lack of ethical standards, and apparent lawbreaking by justices on the Supreme Court. These revelations have severe and far-reaching consequences on the
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A group of former state supreme court justices filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. Anderson urging the Court to affirm the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that Donald Trump is disqualified under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The justices served as associate and chief justices of state supreme courts
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