Latest Developments

Plaintiffs Ask Federal Court to Immediately Halt Defendants’ Use of Artificial Intelligence in U.S. Elections to Undermine Voting Rights

Posted on April 30, 2024

The League of Women Voters has filed a nationwide preliminary injunction in League of Women Voters of New Hampshire v. Kramer to block the defendants from further use of AI technology to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or deceive voters. MANCHESTER, NH – (April 30, 2024) The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWV-US), the
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Free Speech Files Amicus Brief before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court against Unconstitutional Petitions Exempting App-Based Drivers From State Protections

Posted on April 26, 2024 (April 26, 2024)

Challenging Foreign Influence

Free Speech For People filed an amicus brief today in El Koussa v. Campbell, in support of voters who have asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to block placement of five petitions on the November 2024 ballot that would exclude app-based drivers in Massachusetts from state benefits and protections. The petitions were introduced by representatives
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Free Speech For People Launches SCOTUS Reform Now Campaign: Demanding Accountability, Restoring Integrity

Posted on April 25, 2024 (May 1, 2024)

Challenging Corruption

Free Speech For People today launched SCOTUS Reform Now, a comprehensive demand for accountability and reform within the United States Supreme Court to restore its legitimacy and integrity. As reported by ProPublica, the Supreme Court has faced a wide range of scandals over the last several years that have tarnished the Court’s reputation. Investigative reporting
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A Conversation With Free Speech For People Co-Founder and President, John Bonifaz
Presented By Cornell Law School

NOVEMBER 2, 2016
6:00 – 7:00PM

This event is free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by ACS chapter at Cornell Law School.

In the midst of the most expensive election in this nation’s history with unfettered political spending by corporations, unions, and super PACs on the rise, Free Speech For People is at the forefront of the fight to take back our democracy. Founded on the day of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, Free Speech For People envisions a democratic process in which all people have an equal voice and an equal vote. Through a combination of legal advocacy, public education, grassroots organizing, and pressing for a 28th constitutional amendment, Free Speech For People leads the movement to challenge unlimited money in politics and excessive corporate influence and to reclaim our democracy.John Bonifaz, President and Co-Founder of Free Speech For People, will discuss Free Speech For People’s strategies for challenging the judicial rulings that have enabled the flood of money into our system:

working in the courts to create new test cases to overturn Citizens United and related rulings which threaten the integrity of our elections; and
pressing for a 28th Amendment to the Constitution to reclaim our democracy.

John Bonifaz has served as a voting rights and democracy leader for more than two decades. Prior to co- founding Free Speech For People in January 2010, he served as the executive director and general counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute, an organization he founded in 1994, and as the legal director of Voter Action. Mr. Bonifaz is a 1992 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and a 1999 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

EVENT LOCATION

Cornell Law School, Room 182
Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853