New FSFP Video: President Biden Must Instruct the National Archivist to Certify the Equal Rights Amendment Posted on July 19, 2023 (July 19, 2023) Democracy Amendments Check out our new video featuring FSFP Legal Counsel Courtney Hostetler, Kate Kelly Esq. of Equal Rights Action, and Claudia Nachega of Generation Ratify, on why President Biden must instruct the National Archivist to certify the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Sign our petition and demand action here.Read More
FSFP Legal Counsel Courtney Hostetler Discusses The Equal Rights Amendment on The Damage Report. Posted on April 29, 2021 (April 30, 2021) Democracy Amendments FSFP Legal Counsel Courtney Hostetler recently appeared on The Damage Report to discuss the Equal Rights Amendment, the Constitutional amendment banning sex and gender discrimination. During the discussion with host John Iadarola, Hostetler discussed the Trump-era Department of Justice (DOJ) opinion that has, to date, blocked the publishing of the Amendment as the 28th AmendmentRead More
John Bonifaz and Jim Bopp Debate The Democracy For All Amendment on Outside The Box Posted on January 9, 2020 Democracy Amendments Free Speech For People President John Bonifaz recently appeared on Outside The Box to discuss political equality and the importance of a Democracy For All Amendment. During a debate with James Bopp, Jr., John outlined how the 28th Amendment would overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and related rulings and would end the systemRead More
Buckley v. Valeo, 43 Years Later Posted on November 13, 2018 (November 13, 2018) This past weekend marked the 43rd anniversary of the oral arguments in Buckley v. Valeo, the 1976 Supreme Court case that set the foundation for four decades of problematic and often unworkable jurisprudence impeding society’s ability to put limits on the influence of big money in elections. But on November 10, 1975, when the lawyersRead More
New campaign finance reform book, and a free chapter on the 28th Amendment Posted on October 26, 2018 (December 17, 2018) Democracy Amendments In April 2016, Free Speech For People co-hosted a symposium at Seton Hall School of Law featuring scholars and activists from across the country to help develop new thinking and proposed solutions for overhauling our nation’s campaign finance system. The ideas presented at that symposium led to the new book, ‘Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America’.Read More
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club decision, seven years later Posted on June 27, 2018 (June 28, 2018) Democracy Amendments June 27 marks the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, which struck down key portions of Arizona’s public campaign financing law as supposedly violating the First Amendment. This blog post for the decision’s anniversary was drafted by Ryan Gorman, a student at Harvard Law SchoolRead More
Harper v. Virginia and the Wealth Primary as a New Poll Tax Posted on March 24, 2018 (September 18, 2018) Democracy Amendments Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections, which struck down poll taxes in state elections as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Virginia’s poll taxes, enacted in 1902, had preserved Virginia’s place as an elite white man’s commonwealth. But to this day,Read More
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Nevada Legislature passes proposal to overturn Citizens United Posted on May 26, 2017 The Nevada Assembly on Thursday voted 26-14 on a resolution that asks Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would rein in independent political campaign spending.Read More
Op-Ed: Texas Should Help Overturn Citizens United Posted on April 13, 2017 (April 13, 2017) Free Speech For People staff member and Austin resident, Aspen Webster authored an op-ed published today in the Austin-American Statesman on why “Texas Should Help Overturn Citizens United.”Read More
Texas to Consider Bill for 28th Amendment to Overturn Citizens United Posted on March 29, 2017 (March 29, 2017) Tomorrow, Thursday, March 30th, there will be a public hearing for bill HCR 34 before the Select Committee on House State and Federal Power and Responsibility in the Texas Legislature. The bill, sponsored by Representative Rafael Anchia, urges Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification an 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, overturning the Supreme Court’s CitizensRead More