Commissioner Ellen Weintraub of the U.S. Federal Election Commission Urges New York State Legislature To Support The Democracy Preservation Act. Posted on June 2, 2021 Challenging Foreign Influence FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub sent a letter to members of the New York State Legislature, urging them to support the Democracy Preservation Act and protect New York’s state and local elections from foreign influence. “Elections at all levels in the United States have been under sustained direct attack from our foreign adversaries,” Commissioner Weintraub writes.Read More
Federal Election Commissioner: FEC Must “Respond Forcefully” to Foreign Election Interference Posted on June 22, 2017 (June 22, 2017) Federal Election Commissioner Ellen Weintraub today told her fellow Commissioners that the FEC must “respond forcefully” to reports of foreign attempts to influence the 2016 election. As she explained, “This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for our democracy.”Read More
Public Interest Groups to Deliver 200,000 Signatures to FEC Calling for Investigation of Russian Interference in 2016 Posted on June 15, 2017 (June 15, 2017) Today, three leading public interest organizations will hand deliver more than 200,000 petition signatures to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), calling on the agency to immediately investigate whether Russian agents and the Trump campaign violated federal campaign finance laws during the 2016 campaign.Read More
Our Stetson Law Panel: Taking on Citizens United Posted on October 27, 2016 (October 28, 2016) Free Speech For People and the Stetson Law Chapter of the American Constitution Society presented a panel on short- and long-term strategies to overturn Citizens United, featuring FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub.Read More