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Campaign Legal Center

We fight for every American to meaningfully participate in the political process

Campaign Legal Center

We fight for every American to meaningfully participate in the political process
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Campaign Legal Center works to protect and strengthen the U.S. democratic process across all levels of government.

CLC is adamantly nonpartisan, holding candidates and government officials accountable regardless of political affiliation.

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Alabamian Willie Mack - Who Believed He was Disqualified from Voting - Finally Can Cast a Ballot

"This feeling is the best," says first-time voter. 

Partisan Gerymandering Plaintiffs at U.S. Supreme Court

"I've always voted. But now I feel that my vote doesn't count": Partisan Gerrymandering Silences Voters

Meet the plaintiffs in the landmark partisan gerrymandering case, Gill v. Whitford.

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CLC Launches RestoreYourVote.org to Help Millions of Citizens Vote

At RestoreYourVote.org, users from all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, will be able to answer key questions about their convictions and determine if they are eligible to vote right now, or eligible to go through the process to restore their right to vote.  

August 14, 2018

Census Citizenship Question Would Distort Our Representative Democracy

August 9, 2018

LLCs: The Perfect Mechanism to Funnel Secret (and Perhaps Foreign) Money Into Elections

July 30, 2018

Call Recording - After the Supreme Court: What's Next for Fair Maps

July 17, 2018
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CLC v. DOJ (Census FOIA)

CLC filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its failure to produce any documents related to its December 2017 request to the Department of Commerce to add a citizenship question in the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census.

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Status Active
Citizens Protecting Michigan's Constitution v. Secretary of State

CLC is supporting a grassroots organization's effort to put a proposed ballot initiative on the ballot in Michigan that would create an independent redistricting commission.

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Status Closed
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation

Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia.

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Status Active
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