The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ("FIRE"), the nonpartisan free speech advocacy nonprofit, will provide pro bono legal defense services for J. Ann Selzer, the Iowa pollster who was sued by President-elect Donald Trump over a poll she conducted for The Des Moines Register.

Another group is suing the Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer over the Iowa Poll published days before the 2024 general election on behalf of the paper’s subscribers, saying the Register “delivered the dictionary definition of fake news” by publishing the poll.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a free speech group, announced yesterday it will represent J. Ann Selzer pro bono against a lawsuit filed by President-elect Trump. Catch up fast: Trump sued the Des Moines Register and its top pollster last month for "brazen election interference" and "fraud" over a poll the newspaper published showing him on track to lose Iowa in the 2024 presidential election,

A nonprofit group will represent Ann Selzer and her polling company free of charge against a lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump. The suit, filed last month, alleges Selzer’s Iowa Poll in the Des Moines Register — which showed Trump trailing in Iowa by three points — was a form of election interference.