Category: 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,
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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 Magliocca
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Free Speech For People today issued a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, and Ranking Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, calling for immediate and thorough investigations into sexual misconduct, perjury, and conspiracy to obstruct a congressional proceeding involving Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  The new allegations were raised in filmmaker Doug
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On the second anniversary of the violent January 6th insurrection, nonpartisan civic action group is urging Colorado Secretary of State to use her power and to follow the mandate of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to bar Trump from the ballot. DENVER, CO (January 6, 2022) – Mi Familia Vota, a national organization working
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On December 23, an Alaska superior court judge issued findings of fact and conclusions of law rejecting a challenge to the eligibility of state representative David Eastman under the Alaska state constitution’s “disloyalty clause.” Eastman has been a member of the Oath Keepers, an extremist group whose leaders were recently found guilty of seditious conspiracy
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The petition identifies Representatives Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene as ineligible for Congressional office for having “voiced support for and helped facilitate” the deadly insurrection on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. (WASHINGTON, DC) – Free Speech For People and MoveOn issued a joint petition today calling on voters to urge
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Free Speech For People welcomes a new federal bill, introduced by Rep. David Cicilline, that could help enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, against Donald Trump in particular. Although enforcement of Section 3 does not require a bill such as this, the bill would nonetheless be helpful in enforcement proceedings.  The bill includes extensive
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Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of a special counsel to take over investigations of Donald Trump’s interference with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election and his subsequent theft of national security documents is another misguided gesture to appease Trump apologists who will accuse Garland of engaging in a political persecution no
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