Doris Kearns Goodwin: "Would fight for amendment to overturn Citizens United"

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Voting Rights Advocates File Brief Supporting Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Block Use of Unsafe and Insecure Electronic Voting Machines In North Carolina

Posted on August 5, 2020 (August 5, 2020)

Free Speech For People, Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights, and pro bono law firm Sheppard Mullin, on behalf of plaintiffs North Carolina NAACP and several individual voters, are seeking a preliminary injunction to enjoin the use of the insecure, unreliable, unsafe, and unverifiable ExpressVote voting machine in North Carolina. On Tuesday, the plaintiffs submitted a
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New report: President Trump’s Commutation of Roger Stone’s Criminal Sentence Violated the Faithful Execution Clauses of the U.S. Constitution

Posted on August 5, 2020

Presidential Corruption

The President’s constitutional power to pardon (or to commute) is broad, but it is not absolute. Rather, it is limited by the text of the Constitution, including, for example, the Equal Protection Clause and the First Amendment, and, most relevant here, Article II’s Faithful Execution Clauses, which established legal constraints on the Executive similar to
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FSFP Announces Support For Series Of Democracy Amendments

Posted on August 4, 2020

Democracy Amendments

Free Speech For People was founded on the day of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC more than a decade ago, and we have been a leader ever since of the movement for constitutional amendments to overturn that ruling and reclaim our democracy. We were among the first advocates for the People’s
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Doris Kearns Goodwin was interviewed on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and she commented on the need for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

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