"We the Corporations?" Event Planned at U of Wisconsin Law School

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U.S. Department of Justice Files Amicus Brief to Support Appeal by Colorado Civil Rights Organizations in Voter Intimidation Suit

Posted on November 15, 2024 (November 20, 2024)

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. These groups, represented by Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells, filed their appeal brief last week, challenging the
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Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification

Posted on November 13, 2024 (November 18, 2024)

Election Protection

A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification. Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessed
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Free Speech For People’s Statement on the 2024 Election

Posted on November 8, 2024 (November 12, 2024)

FSFP Updates

Our democracy is worth saving. This election cycle, our democracy has been staggered by blow after blow. We cannot pretend otherwise; to do so would be to accept that this hamstrung system is the one with which we must live. It is not and we do not accept that it is. We will keep fighting
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“WE THE CORPORATIONS?”
Life & Law in the U.S.A. after Citizens United v. FEC

Friday, April 16th, 2010
University of Wisconsin Law School
Madison, Wisconsin

On January 21st, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. An avalanche of criticism from grassroots organizations, members of Congress, and the President of the United States followed. Hundreds of thousands of Americans signed motions calling for action to overrule the Court — including amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

“We the Corporations?” Life & Law in the U.S.A. after Citizens United v. FEC is a one day conference addressing that historic decision, and featuring reactions to it from some of the nation’s leading democracy campaigners and experts on the doctrine of corporate constitutional rights.

FEATURING:

John Nichols, Esq., co-author, The Death and Life of American Journalism
Peg Lautenschlager, former Attorney General, State of Wisconsin
Cheryl Weston, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin; founder, Cullen Weston Pines & Bach, LLP
Jeffrey Clements, author of amicus in Citizens United; former Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; General Counsel to Free Speech for People, freespeechforpeople.org
Lisa Graves, Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States; Executive Committee, Campaign to Legalize Democracy, MovetoAmend.org
Matt Rothschild, Editor, The Progressive Magazine
Ben Manski, Executive Director, Liberty Tree Foundation; Attorney at Law, Manski Law & Communications, LLC; Executive Committee, Campaign to Legalize Democracy, MovetoAmend.org
Mike McCabe, Executive Director, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign; coordinator, Citizen United Against Citizens United
Riki Ott, Executive Director, Ultimate Civics; author, Not One Drop; Executive Committee, Campaign to Legalize Democracy, MovetoAmend.org

Hosted by the UW-Madison National Lawyers Guild
Sponsored by the Liberty Tree Foundation, Center for Media and Democracy, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
Cosponsored by the A.E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, Madison Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, and more.