Free Speech For People and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund’s Statement on the U.S. Justice Department’s Criminal Indictment of Donald Trump Posted on August 1, 2023 (August 1, 2023) Challenging Corruption Free Speech For People (a national nonpartisan public interest legal advocacy organization that, in 2022, filed the first challenges, and conducted the first trial under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause in 150 years) and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (a national civic engagement non-profit organization that unites Latino, immigrant, and allied communities to promoteRead More
“Election Officials Must Carry Out Their Duty,” Letters to Secretaries of State Make the Case for Why Trump is Constitutionally Barred from the Ballot Posted on July 12, 2023 Challenging Corruption Under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, Trump’s incitement of the January 6th insurrection bars him from holding public office. BOSTON, MA (July 12, 2023) – Free Speech For People (FSFP) and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) issued letters today to Secretaries of State and chief election officials in nine states, urging them toRead More
“Trump is Disqualified,” Week of Action Marks 155th Anniversary of the 14th Amendment Posted on July 10, 2023 (July 11, 2023) Challenging Corruption Actions across the country from July 9th to July 15th highlight Trump’s ineligibility under the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause. WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 10, 2023) – Free Speech For People and MiFamilia Vota on Sunday launched a week of action to urge election officials across the country to bar Donald Trump from the ballot under Section 3Read More
Letter to Nevada Secretary of State Seeks to Bar Trump from the Ballot Posted on June 28, 2023 Challenging Corruption Under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, Trump’s incitement of the January 6th insurrection bars him from holding public office. CARSON CITY, NV (June 28, 2023) – Free Speech For People (FSFP) and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) released a letter today which they recently delivered to Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar urgingRead More
Government Watchdog Calls for Recusal of Judge Cannon from United States v. Donald Trump Posted on June 14, 2023 Challenging Corruption Letter to Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida urges her to exercise her authority under federal law and internal court procedure to reassign the case if Judge Cannon does not recuse herself in ten days MIAMI, FL (June 14, 2023) Free Speech For People, a non-profit organization dedicatedRead More
“States Must Act,” Read this New Oped by Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Why Donald Trump is Disqualified from Future Public Office and Must be Barred From the Ballot Posted on April 25, 2023 Challenging Corruption The Guardian recently published a new op-ed by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on why Donald Trump’s incitement of the January 6 insurrection disqualifies him from future public office under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. He goes on to make the case for why Secretaries of State across the country must bar the formerRead More
Free Speech For People’s Campaign to Uphold Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and Bar Trump from the Ballot Featured in New Washington Post Piece Posted on April 24, 2023 Challenging Corruption The Washington Post recently published a new piece entitled, “Trump team prepares to fight efforts to block him from ballots over Jan. 6”. The article discusses Free Speech For People and Mi Familia Vota’s joint 14point3 campaign, and details our efforts across the country to uphold Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and bar theRead More
Free Speech For People’s Statement on Trump Indictment and the Need for Accountability for his Other Crimes Posted on April 4, 2023 Challenging Corruption Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan nonprofit organization founded in 2010 to fight for constitutional democracy, and the first national organization to call for Trump’s impeachment, applauds the Manhattan district attorney and grand jury for finally holding Trump to account in a court of law for one of his many violations of state andRead More
BREAKING: A Manhattan grand jury has indicted former president Trump in connection with his illegal “hush money” payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Posted on March 30, 2023 Challenging Corruption The grand jury’s indictment emerged from the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation of a 2016 payment of $130,000 by Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen to Daniels one month before the election to prevent revelations of a 2006 sexual encounter between Daniels and Trump. Cohen was arrested in 2018 for campaign finance violations related to this payment,Read More
New report explains why states can enforce Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause without any new federal legislation Posted on March 30, 2023 Challenging Corruption Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment (the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause) bars insurrectionists from public office. It is sometimes suggested that enforcing Section 3 against those involved in the January 6, 2021 insurrection–such as former president Donald Trump– would require new federal legislation. Free Speech For People has issued a report, co-written with Professor Gerard MaglioccaRead More