On March 9, Protect Democracy sent a letter to all members of the Florida Senate urging them to vote against H.B. 7 / S.B. 148, which is unconstitutional. This follows Protect Democracy’s February 22 letter to the bill sponsors and members of the Florida House. The bill amounts to state censorship and would prohibit private employers and teachers in public schools, colleges, and universities from advancing certain ideas relating to race and sex because of hostility to those ideas. If the Senate votes to approve the bill today, it will go to the governor for his signature.
Read the full letter below. For a PDF of the letter, click here.
On May 25, Protect Democracy filed an amicus brief on behalf of Division 15 of the American Psychological Association in support of plaintiffs in Falls v. DeSantis, who challenged Florida H.B. 7, the “Stop W.O.K.E. Act,” as unconstitutional. APA Division 15, which consists of leading experts and researchers…
May 24, 2022 – Former Fulton County, Georgia elections worker, and Protect Democracy client, Wandrea’ “Shaye” Moss received the JFK Library Foundation’s Profile in Courage Award Sunday night for her dedication to democracy in the face of serious threats to her and her family. Moss was falsely accused…
Today, Judge Henry Autrey of the Eastern District of Missouri ruled that The Gateway Pundit, its founder and publisher Jim Hoft, and its contributor Joe Hoft, must defend themselves in Missouri state court, granting plaintiffs’ motion to remand the case to state court. The defendants had removed the…