JOHN BONIFAZ
John Bonifaz is a Boston-based public interest attorney and a leading voice in the nation on the illegality of the war in Iraq and on the continuing struggle to protect the right to vote in the United States.
On the eve of the Iraq war, Mr. Bonifaz served as lead counsel for a coalition of US soldiers, parents of US soldiers, and Members of Congress in a constitutional challenge to President Bush’s authority to wage war against Iraq absent a congressional declaration of war or equivalent action. Mr. Bonifaz is the author of Warrior-King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush (NationBooks-NY, foreword by Rep. John Conyers, Jr., January 2004). The book presents an accounting of that case and its meaning for the United States Constitution.
Mr. Bonifaz is also the founder of the National Voting Rights Institute (NVRI) (www.nvri.org), a prominent legal and public education center dedicated to protecting the right of all citizens to vote and to participate in the electoral process on an equal and meaningful basis. As NVRI’s founder, Mr. Bonifaz has been at the forefront of key voting rights battles across the nation, including the fight for a full recount of the 2004 presidential vote in Ohio.
Mr. Bonifaz is a 1999 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a 1992 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
John Bonifaz ran as a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts Secretary of State in the 2006 Democratic primary and received nearly 130,000 votes.
Mr. Bonifaz is available to speak on the constitutional questions surrounding the Iraq war and on the growing grassroots movement to safeguard the integrity of our elections.
Contact the lecture bureau to schedule John Bonifaz for your next event.
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