Free Speech For People

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Free Speech For People seeks to loosen voter integrity through strategic litigation.

John Bonifaz is co-founder and director of Free Speech For People. Alexandra Flores-Quilty is Campaign Director at Free Speech For People.

About

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Free Speech For People, a national nonprofit nonpartisan organization, is a catalyzing leader in the country challenging big money in politics, confronting corruption at the highest levels of our government, fighting for free and fair elections, and advancing a new jurisprudence grounded in the promises of political equality and democratic self-government. Through our cutting-edge legal advocacy, public education, and organizing work, we are at the forefront of a movement across the country to defend our Constitution and to reclaim our democracy.

Founded on the day of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, Free Speech For People envisions a democratic process in which all people have an equal voice and an equal vote. We advance this mission with innovative, transformative, and effective strategies, including:

• We catalyze and help lead the movement to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court’s rulings in Citizens United v. FEC and Buckley v. Valeo, and the doctrines underlying those rulings;

• We engage in legal advocacy to advance a new jurisprudence on money in politics and to confront the misuse of the U.S. Constitution to claim corporate exemptions from our laws;

• We develop and advocate for model laws and other tools to challenge big money in politics and to make corporations responsible and accountable to the public.

• We challenge corruption at the highest levels of our government and lead bold campaigns for accountability under the law;

• We fight for free and fair elections, for reliable and secure voting systems, and for the bedrock principle that, in a democracy, all voters must have their votes properly counted.

National Impeachment Summit

Free Speech For People Board Members Stephanie Sanchez, John Bonifaz, Jennifer Taub, and Ben Binswanger with Congressman Al Green in his office on Capitol Hill.

Free Speech For People Board Members Stephanie Sanchez, John Bonifaz, Jennifer Taub, and Ben Binswanger with Congressman Al Green in his office on Capitol Hill for the National Impeachment Summit. Congressman Al Green "was also among the featured speakers at the press conference, speaking about why Congress must start impeachment proceedings now."

Staff

Board Of Directors

• Ben Binswanger, Director
• John Bonifaz, Co-founder And President
• Ben Clements, Chair Of The Board; Chair Of The Board’s Legal Committee; And Senior Legal Advisor
• Venu Gupta, Director
• Joia Mukherjee, Director
• Deborah Hayes Stone, Treasurer
• Jennifer Taub, Director

Staff

• John Bonifaz, Co-founder And President
• Oske Buckley, Director Of Administration And Finance
• Gillian Cassell-Stiga, Special Counsel
• Edward Erikson, Communications Consultant
• Ron Fein, Legal Director
• Alexandra Flores-Quilty, Campaign Director
• Susan Greenhalgh, Senior Advisor On Election Security
• Rosemary Hamington, Administrative And Development Assistant
• Courtney Hostetler, Senior Counsel

Legal Advisory Committee

• Albert Alschuler, Professor Emeritus Of Law And Criminology, University Of Chicago Law School
• Lawrence Anderson, Montana Trial Attorney And Member Of The Board Of Governors Of The American Association Of Justice
• David Ciepley, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, Princeton University, Associate Professor Of Political Science, University Of Denver
• John Coates, Professor Of Law, Harvard Law School
• James Exum, Jr., Former Chief Justice Of The North Carolina Supreme Court
• Caroline Frederickson, President, American Constitution Society
• Ellen P. Goodman, Professor Of Law, Rutgers School Of Law
• Lisa Graves, Co-Director, Documented
• Daniel Greenwood, Professor Of Law, Hofstra Law School
• Thomas Joo, Professor Of Law, University Of California, Davis, School Of Law
• Liz Kennedy, Director Of Democracy And Government Reform At The Center For American Progress
• Robert Kerr, Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor, University Of Oklahoma
• Cyrus Mehri, Founding Partner, Mehri & Skalet, PLLC.
• Robert A.G. Monks, Author, Founder, Lens Governance Advisors
• James Nelson, Former Justice Of The Montana Supreme Court
• Eva Paterson, Co-founder And President, Equal Justice Society
• Peter Pease, Founder, Law Offices Of Peter Pease
• Katie Redford, Executive Director, The Equation Campaign
• Bertrall Ross, Assistant Professor Of Law, University Of California At Berkeley School Of Law
• Catherine Ross, Professor Of Law, George Washington University Law School
• Dale Rubin, Professor Of Law, Appalachian School Of Law
• Steven Shiffrin, Professor Of Law, Cornell University Law School
• James Gustave Speth, Senior Fellow, Vermont Law School
• Jennifer Taub, Associate Professor Of Law, Vermont Law School
• Gerald Torres, Jane M.G. Foster Professor, Cornell University Law School

Deplatforming Advocacy

Free Speech For People signed a letter spearheaded by Accountable Tech headlined Open Letter to the Biden-Harris Administration: Treating Disinformation as an Intersectional Threat urging Joe Biden to "treat disinformation as a fundamental and intersectional threat" and proposes a range of supposed remedies to suppress speech on social media platforms, create and bolster federal government agencies to deal with "disinformation" and further to actively indoctrinate Americans, particularly in public schools.