FSFP President John Bonifaz Discusses President Trump’s Attempts To Overturn The 2020 Election Results On The Bradcast. Posted on November 25, 2020 Challenging Corruption FSFP President John Bonifaz recently appeared on The Bradcast to discuss President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results and the importance of a new administration holding him accountable once he’s out of office. “His effort to subvert the Constitution, to disenfranchise millions of voters based on this falsehood that mail-in voting has beenRead More
November 27th: Time To Transition – A Call To Defend Democracy Posted on November 20, 2020 Challenging Corruption One of the hallmarks of our presidential elections is the peaceful transition of power from one president to the next. Even when a sitting president has lost his bid for a second term, he has graciously conceded and prepared for the newly-elected president to take office. President Trump, however, has not only refused to concedeRead More
FSFP urges House Judiciary Committee to convene an impeachment inquiry following Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s prison sentence Posted on July 11, 2020 (July 13, 2020) Impeachment Free Speech For People issued a letter today to Committee Chairman Nadler and Vice Chairwoman Scanlon of the House Judiciary Committee, urging the Committee to convene an impeachment inquiry immediately to investigate whether to recommend articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump for commuting the prison sentence of his longtime ally, Roger Stone. Mr.Read More
Trump’s hush money payments to influence the election are grounds for impeachment Posted on April 1, 2019 (April 1, 2019) Impeachment President Trump has been directly implicated—by his own personal lawyer—in a criminal conspiracy to illegally influence the election. This justifies an impeachment investigation. Facts On August 21, 2018, President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges. Two of those charges stem directly from criminal actions that he took at the directionRead More
No Supreme Court Confirmation Until Impeachment Hearings and Criminal Investigation Have Concluded Posted on June 28, 2018 (June 28, 2018) Impeachment We call upon the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to postpone the confirmation hearings for any potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court until both Congressional impeachment proceedings and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation have concluded. This is the first time in American history that a president’s campaign has been under criminal investigation for potentialRead More
New ground for impeachment hearings: cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of children and their families Posted on June 22, 2018 (June 22, 2018) Impeachment We have added a new ground to our call for Congress to start hearings on whether to impeach President Trump: cruel and unconstitutional imprisonment of adults and children. Background As we noted in our statement earlier this week, under Trump’s dictate, several thousand children have been seized from their families—who were often told that theirRead More
The Hill: Trump’s ‘treason’ talk is unprecedented, un-American Posted on February 14, 2018 Democracy Amendments As a piece in The Hill today noted, President Trump recently suggested congressional Democrats were guilty of “treason” for failing to applaud his State of the Union speech. As he put it, “Can we call that treason? Why not?” Here’s why not: The Constitution specifically defines treason, and failing to applaud the president isn’t treason—not by a longRead More
Free Speech For People Calls for Urgent Release of Pentagon Information on Trump’s Military Parade Posted on February 7, 2018 (October 3, 2018) Today, Free Speech For People submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Defense, calling for the urgent release of communications, documents, and other records regarding President Trump’s proposed military parade through Washington, D.C. As reported in the Washington Post on February 6, while President Trump has long expressed a desire for aRead More
Trump Officials Are Exploring Mass Arrests of US Mayors Posted on January 30, 2018 Impeachment Trump administration officials are openly floating the idea of mass arrests of mayors of sanctuary cities. Two different high-ranking officials discussed this on national television in January alone. On January 16, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen told the Senate Judiciary Committee that, at her department’s request, federal prosecutors are “reviewing what avenues might be available” to arrestRead More
Our Statement after Facebook Revelations Regarding Russian Interference in the 2016 Election Posted on September 7, 2017 (October 3, 2018) After Facebook revelations, FEC must act now on pending complaint for Russian election interference and Trump campaign coordination.Read More