Updated: 2010 State Resolutions Introduced in Support of Amending the Constitution

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The Supreme Court’s Self-Serving Decisions to Exonerate Corrupt Officials For the Court’s Own Benefit

Posted on November 1, 2024

The following is commentary by Amira Mattar, Counsel, and Courtney Hostetler, Legal Director, at Free Speech For People. It originally appeared as an op-ed in Common Dreams and is reprinted below: Opinion by opinion, the Supreme Court has moved towards a judicial framework that insulates justices from growing public concern about their own corruption. In
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Free Speech For People Calls on the Pennsylvania Attorney General to take Steps to Remove Leading Election Denialist Attorney from Representing Fulton County, Pennsylvania

Posted on November 1, 2024

Election Protection

On October 31st, Free Speech For People sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry calling on her to take all appropriate and necessary steps to urgently remove Stefanie Lambert from representing Fulton County, Pennsylvania as “special counsel” for all elections and election-related matters. Lambert is a key figure in the effort to
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Free Speech For People and Mayer Brown Move to Intervene on behalf of the NAACP to Protect Nevada Voters from Last Minute Purge of Voter Rolls

Posted on October 31, 2024 (November 1, 2024)

Election Protection

Today, the NAACP Tri-State Conference of Idaho-Nevada-Utah, represented by Free Speech For People, Mayer Brown LLP, and Woodburn and Wedge, moved to intervene in Dagusen v. Aguilar, a lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, Nevada Republican Party, and a voter demanding an unlawful purge of Nevada’s voter rolls just weeks before
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California AJR 3. Assemblyman Pedro Nava (D-35). Introduced on 1/23/2009. Expresses disagreement with the Citizens United ruling and calls on the US Congress to pass a constitutional amendment. Click here for additional information, including full text and current status.

Hawaii HCR 282. Representative Bob Herkes (D-5). Introduced on 3/10/2010. Expresses disagreement with the Citizens United ruling and calls on the US Congress to pass a constitutional amendment barring the use of “person” when defining “corporate entity.” Click here for additional information, including full text and current status. Resolution passed on 4/28/10.

Idaho HJM 12. House State Affairs Committee. Introduced on 2/24/2010. Expresses disagreement with the Citizens United ruling and calls on the US Congress to take action through legislation or a constitutional amendment. Click here for additional information, including full text and current status. Referred to State Affairs on 2/25/10.

Massachusetts SD 2666. On June 21, 2010, a group of Massachusetts state legislators, led by Massachusetts State Senator Jamie Eldridge, introduced the Free Speech For People resolution in the state legislature (PDF). The resolution calls on the US Congress “to pass and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to restore the First Amendment and fair elections to the people.” Click here for additional information, including full text and current status. Referred to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on 7/15/2010.

New Jersey AR 64. Assemblyman Herb Conaway (D-7). Introduced on 3/4/2010. Expresses disagreement with the Citizens United ruling and calls on the US Congress to pass a constitutional amendment. Click here for additional information, including full text. AR 64 was referred to the Assembly State Goverment Committee on 3/4/10.

South Dakota HCR 1018. Representative Ed Iron Cloud (D-27). Introduced on 3/9/2010. Expresses disagreement with the Citizens United ruling and calls on the US Congress to pass a constitutional amendment. Click here for additional information, including full text. HCR 1018 failed to pass the House of Representatives on 3/10/2010.

Washington SJM 8027. Senator Ken Jacobsen (D-46). Introduced on 2/4/2010. Expresses disagreement with the Citizens United ruling and calls on the US Congress to pass a constitutional amendment. Click here for additional information, including full text and current status. Reintroduced and retained in present status on 3/15/10.

Information on state resolutions reposted from the People for the American Way, ‘Legislation to Fix Citizens United‘.

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