Category: Supreme Court

“A tool of discrimination”: FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements argues SCOTUS ruling on LGBTQ+ discrimination could undo decades of progress for historically marginalized groups.

In a recent op-ed published in The Hill, Free Speech For People Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements argues that the Supreme Court’s ruling in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis not only greenlights discrimination against members of the LGBTQ+ community, but it opens the door to legalizing discrimination against historically marginalized groups: “The court’s
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Justice Thomas Must Be Impeached

Congress must impeach Justice Thomas. In his position as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, he has, over the course of many years, abused his power to protect and advance his own personal interests and those of his wife and his friends. Justice Thomas has accepted and failed to disclose
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Free Speech For People Calls on Attorney General and Senate Judiciary Committee to Open Immediate Investigation into New Kavanaugh Allegations

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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Free Speech For People Renews the Call to Expand the Supreme Court

After a half-century of legal precedent, a handful of extremist Supreme Court justices have overturned Roe v. Wade, denying bodily autonomy for millions of Americans. Meanwhile, the Court also dealt a crushing blow to gun control measures yesterday when it overturned a law in New York that would have required a permit for concealed carry,
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The Supreme Court is Attacking Our Voting Rights

The Supreme Court gutted the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act twice. First, in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, they stripped away the preclearance provision that protected voting rights in states with a history of voter suppression. Then this summer, in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, Justice Alito issued a majority opinion undermining
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