Tag: Donald Trump

Abuse of Power, Impeachable Offense: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump
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Impeachment

On May 10th, 2025, constitutional attorney and FSFP President John Bonifaz delivered a rousing keynote address at the 16th annual Wisconsin Grassroots Festival in which he elucidated the constitutional necessity for Congress to invoke the Impeachment clause against President Trump. You can watch his full remarks below. The Constitution’s Framers, Bonifaz explained, established the Impeachment
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Joint Statement of Free Speech For People and Lockridge Grindal Nauen, counsel for voter-petitioners in Growe v. Simon
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Challenging Corruption

Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued a ruling in Growe v. Simon, the landmark challenge to Donald Trump’s eligibility for office under section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Unfortunately, the court granted Trump’s request to stop the proceedings at the primary stage, but specifically allowed the petitioners to refile before the general election.   The
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Challenges to Trump’s Eligibility Under Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause featured on ABC’s “This Week”
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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 be
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Free Speech For People’s Statement on Florida Caplan v. Trump ruling
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Challenging Corruption

On August 31, a federal judge in Florida dismissed a lawsuit filed by a tax attorney, representing himself pro se, who challenged Donald Trump’s eligibility for office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court ruled, unsurprisingly, that federal courts do not have jurisdiction over such claims, which (in federal court) require plaintiffs to
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RECAP: Actions Across the Country Coincides With Letters to Secretaries of State Urging Them to Uphold Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and Bar Trump from the Ballot.
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Challenging Corruption

Last month, Free Speech For People and MiFamilia Vota launched a series of actions to mark the 155th anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and to urge election officials across the country to enforce Section 3 of that constitutional amendment, also known as the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, and bar Donald Trump from the
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FSFP President John Bonifaz Featured in The Nation Magazine: “The Biggest Threat to Donald Trump Could Be the Constitution Itself”
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Challenging Corruption

The Nation recently published a new article on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and the question of whether or not former president Trump can be disqualified from the ballot. The piece features FSFP President John Bonifaz discussing the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause and the ongoing campaign to pressure chief election officials to abide by the
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“Trump is Disqualified,” Week of Action Marks 155th Anniversary of the 14th Amendment
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Challenging Corruption

Actions across the country from July 9th to July 15th highlight Trump’s ineligibility under the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause. WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 10, 2023) – Free Speech For People and MiFamilia Vota on Sunday launched a week of action to urge election officials across the country to bar Donald Trump from the ballot under Section 3
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“States Must Act,” Read this New Oped by Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Why Donald Trump is Disqualified from Future Public Office and Must be Barred From the Ballot
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Challenging Corruption

The Guardian recently published a new op-ed by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on why Donald Trump’s incitement of the January 6 insurrection disqualifies him from future public office under Section Three  of the Fourteenth Amendment. He goes on to make the case for why Secretaries of State across the country must bar the former
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Free Speech For People’s Campaign to Uphold Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and Bar Trump from the Ballot Featured in New Washington Post Piece
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Challenging Corruption

The Washington Post recently published a new piece entitled, “Trump team prepares to fight efforts to block him from ballots over Jan. 6”. The article discusses Free Speech For People and Mi Familia Vota’s joint 14point3 campaign, and details our efforts across the country to uphold Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and bar the
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“It’s absolutely absurd”: FSFP Senior Advisor on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh Featured in the Los Angeles Times on Trump Allies’ Multi-State Effort to Access Election Systems and the DOJ’s Failure to Investigate Potential Crimes.
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Election Protection

The LA Times recently published a new piece on Trump allies’ multi-state effort to access election systems and the apparent lack of a federal probe into the matter. The piece features contributions from FSFP Senior Advisor on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh. “If this was the electrical grid or nuclear energy plants, or the water supply,
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