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Pillar of Law Wins Important Free Speech Victory in Voter List Access Case

by Pillar of Law | Jul 12, 2019 | Political Speech

RICHMOND, VA — a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unanimously reversed dismissal of the case Fusaro v. Davitt today, restoring a challenge to a Maryland law that restricts access to the state’s registered voter list to Maryland...

Pillar of Law “Ballot Selfie” Case Settles for Free Speech

by Pillar of Law | May 8, 2019 | Political Speech

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Joel Crookston and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson submitted a stipulated order to dismiss to Judge Janet T. Neff of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan today, asking her to recognize settlement in a...

Michigan “Ballot Selfie” Case to Proceed with Voting Rights Claim

by Pillar of Law | Aug 30, 2018 | Political Speech

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – U.S. District Court Judge Janet Neff denied a motion by Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson to dismiss a voting rights claim against the state’s ballot exposure laws today. The lawsuit, brought by the Pillar of Law Institute on behalf of...

An End to One of the Dumbest Campaign Finance Cases Ever

by Stephen Klein | Jul 26, 2018 | Political Speech

Last year, when news broke of felony charges against then-president of the Los Angeles Board of Education Ref Rodriguez, I scratched my head. With news this week that Rodriguez will plead guilty, serve three years’ probation, pay a $100,000 fine and resign his office,...

Pillar of Law Statement on President Trump’s Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court

by Pillar of Law | Jul 10, 2018 | Political Speech

Pillar Files Free Speech Case Against Maryland Voter List Restrictions

by Pillar of Law | Dec 4, 2017 | Political Speech

BALTIMORE, MD – Pillar of Law Institute attorneys Stephen Klein and Benjamin Barr filed a federal lawsuit in Maryland today on behalf of Dennis Fusaro against Maryland State Prosecutor Emmet Davitt and the Maryland State Board of Elections. The case challenges the...

Did Represent.Us Just Bag a Bunch of Omaze-ing Foreign Money?

by Stephen Klein | Oct 13, 2017 | Political Speech

As far as campaign finance advocacy groups go, Represent.Us is the flashiest. Their messaging includes everything from graphic-intensive YouTube videos about “corruption” to bloviating by Martin Sheen (who played a president on a television show once, and is thus...

Pillar of Law Statement on the Nomination of Trey Trainor to the Federal Election Commission

by Pillar of Law | Sep 13, 2017 | Political Speech

WASHINGTON, DC – Following President Trump’s nomination of James “Trey” Trainor III to serve as commissioner at the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Pillar of Law Institute President Benjamin Barr released the following statement: “Trey Trainor is an excellent...

Maryland Jury Says “Not Guilty” in Pillar Free Speech Case

by Pillar of Law | Aug 3, 2017 | Political Speech

ANNAPOLIS, MD – A jury reached verdicts of not guilty on both counts in the trial of Dennis Fusaro and Stephen Waters today in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, ending a prosecution based on automatic phone calls—or “robocalls”—that were made before the 2014...

Donald Trump, Jr. and the Censorship of Meetings

by Stephen Klein | Jul 11, 2017 | Political Speech

The media, along with the campaign finance regulation community, has worked itself up into quite a frenzy with the revelation that Donald Trump, Jr. had a meeting with a Russian in June, 2016. Of course, they insist, there is more to it, and that Trump may have...
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