Free Speech For People Calls on Attorney General and Senate Judiciary Committee to Open Immediate Investigation into New Kavanaugh Allegations Posted on January 23, 2023 (January 23, 2023) Supreme Court 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 DougRead More
Free Speech For People Renews the Call to Expand the Supreme Court Posted on June 24, 2022 (June 24, 2022) 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,Read More
The Supreme Court is Attacking Our Voting Rights Posted on September 15, 2021 (October 26, 2021) Election Protection 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 underminingRead More
Free Speech For People Endorses Judiciary Act of 2021 to Expand Supreme Court Posted on April 15, 2021 Supreme Court Free Speech For People supports the Judiciary Act of 2021, which would increase the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court from nine to thirteen by creating four new associate justice positions. The Constitution does not specify the number of justices who sit on the Supreme Court at a given time. Rather, Article IIIRead More