Challenges to Trump’s Eligibility Under Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause featured on ABC’s “This Week” Posted on November 6, 2023 (November 7, 2023) Challenging Corruption The movement to hold former President Donald Trump accountable under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment for his role in the January 6th insurrection is gaining momentum. With state courts in Minnesota, Michigan, and Colorado currently hearing cases against Trump citing the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, at least one or more of these cases could beRead More
FSFP Senior Advisor on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh Discusses Coffee County Voting System Software Breach on The Ron Show Podcast Posted on August 31, 2023 Election Protection FSFP Senior Advisor on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh recently appeared on The Ron Show Podcast to discuss the Trump campaign’s multi-state plot to access and steal copies of voting system software from Coffee County, Georgia, and the lack of a federal investigation into the matter. The following is an excerpt from the discussion: The informationRead More
“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. Posted on July 11, 2023 (July 11, 2023) Supreme Court 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’sRead More
FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements argues for the Big Tech Accountability Act in the Western New England Law Review Posted on July 19, 2022 Corporate Abuse of Power Free Speech For People Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements has authored an article for the Western New England Law Review, outlining our proposed Big Tech Accountability Act. The newly-published piece, entitled “The Big Tech Accountability Act: Reforming How the Biggest Corporations Control and Exploit Online Communications,” addresses many of the unfounded claims usedRead More
FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements Authors New Oped on Why The DOJ Must Reject Calls For Recently-Confirmed Antitrust Official to Recuse Himself from The Department’s Case Against Google. Posted on February 3, 2022 Corporate Abuse of Power Jurist recently published a new oped by FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Adviser Ben Clements on why the Department Of Justice must reject calls for the recently-confirmed Associate Attorney General for Antitrust, Jonathan Kanter, to recuse himself from the Department’s case against Google. The following is an excerpt from the new piece: By arguing thatRead More
FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements Authors New Oped on Why The DOJ Must Reject Calls For President Biden’s Antitrust Nominee to Recuse Himself from The Department’s Case Against Tech Titans. Posted on October 1, 2021 (October 1, 2021) Corporate Abuse of Power CommonDreams recently published a new oped by FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements on why the Department Of Justice must reject calls for President Biden’s nominee for Associate Attorney General for Antitrust, Jonathan Kanter, to recuse himself from the Department’s case against Google and other tech titans. In the new piece, Clements notesRead More
“The eyes of history are on him”: New FSFP Oped Published by Newsweek On Why President Biden Must Push The U.S. Senate To End The Filibuster And Pass The For The People Act And The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Posted on July 16, 2021 Defending Key Reforms Newsweek recently published a new oped by FSFP President John Bonifaz and FSFP Board Chairman Ben Clements on why President Biden must utilize his presidential power to push the U.S. Senate to end the filibuster and pass the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The following is an excerptRead More
New FSFP Oped Published By Moyers On Democracy On The Fight Against Growing Threats To Voting Rights And Passing The For The People Act And The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Posted on March 22, 2021 (April 5, 2021) Defending Key Reforms Moyers On Democracy recently published a new oped by FSFP Legal Director Ron Fein, FSFP President John Bonifaz, and FSFP Board Chair and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements on the growing threats to voting rights across the country and the urgent need to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting RightsRead More
#DefendOurElections: The 2020 Election and How We Fight New Threats to Our Democracy. Posted on March 11, 2021 Election Protection On March 4, Free Speech For People held a briefing to review key highlights of our election protection cases in 2020, as well as to outline our voting rights work moving forward, as we continue the fight to defend our democracy. You can see the full video of the briefing presentations below, featuring our BoardRead More
New FSFP Oped In Business Insider on The Alaska Court Case That Could End Super PACs and Reshape Our Democracy. Posted on February 17, 2021 Challenging Super PACs Business Insider recently published a new oped by FSFP Legal Director Ron Fein, FSFP President John Bonifaz, and FSFP Board Chair and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements on the Alaska court case that could end super PACs and reshape our democracy. The Alaska case hinges on a simple question: is this practice corrupt? Under SupremeRead More