Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed complaints with both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Ethics Committees alleging that 66 House candidates and 11 Senate candidates who will be on the ballot on November 3, 2026 have failed to file legally required personal financial disclosure reports.
Financial disclosure reports give voters...
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ cynical attempt to impose an unlawful and gerrymandered map before the 2026 midterm election has been stopped thanks to the advocacy of more than 300,000 Missourians and following multiple decisions issued by both the Missouri Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.
On September 10, 2026, the U.S...
In cities across the country, Americans have organized networks of constitutional observers to exercise their First Amendment rights and hold federal agents accountable as those agents carry out an aggressive and brutal deportation campaign.
In response, multiple federal agencies involved in the Trump administration, including Immigration and...
Campaign Legal Center Sues Trump Administration Over Another Unconstitutional Voting Executive Order
Update: On August 24, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court paused a lower court decision that had blocked the president’s second election-related executive order from taking effect.
However, this decision was only about the timing of the lower court’s decision — not whether the president’s executive order is lawful. The litigation challenging the lawfulness...
Missouri voters have been fighting for the past year for their right to vote under fair maps and have their voices heard through the referendum process. Now, this battle has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
After more than 300,000 Missourians signed a referendum petition on a mid-decade, gerrymandered map passed by the state legislature in 2025...
Update: On September 4, 2026, the Supreme Court temporarily paused a ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which had invalidated the FCC policy, allowing candidates and other committees that jointly fundraise with them to access discounted rates for broadcast advertising.
Every election year, voters can expect a deluge of campaign ads. But...
Campaign Legal Center analyzed ethics compliance data across federal agencies and uncovered a concerning trend: Since the start of the second Trump administration, the effectiveness of agency ethics offices is declining significantly.
Since 2025, there are fewer ethics officials, more political appointees taking over ethics offices from career...
A new law in South Dakota is creating an unnecessarily confusing voter registration process for South Dakotans.
The administration of Senate Bill 175 (SB 175) is causing voters to lose their right to participate in local and statewide elections, despite being eligible to do so.
On behalf of the League of Women Voters in South Dakota and an...
When wealthy special interests can purchase access, influence and favor from public officials, Americans lose trust that the government works for them. President Donald Trump’s planned construction of a massive ballroom at the White House undermines the fundamental trust and expectation that the government works on behalf of the people.
Trump’s...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has a responsibility to protect Americans’ freedom to vote, but recent actions by the DOJ — taken at the behest of President Donald Trump and other members of his administration — are now threatening that very freedom.
Beginning in the spring of 2025, the DOJ embarked on a sweeping effort to demand highly...
President Donald Trump’s second term has been characterized by relentlessly testing (and often overriding) the legal and constitutional limits of presidential authority. A mountain of legally dubious executive orders, a number of ethically questionable actions, and countless examples of executive overreach have blurred the line on where...
The American people need an independent ethics committee in the U.S. Senate to reduce corruption and hold lawmakers accountable to high ethical standards.
Current ethics enforcement in the U.S. Senate is based on a system of self-policing, in which members are responsible for enforcing ethics rules against their own colleagues.
As a result, the...
Black and Latino voters in Galveston County, Texas — the birthplace of Juneteenth — have long been denied a voice in county government, an unjust reality that perpetuates centuries of discrimination.
June 19, also known as Juneteenth, commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States. Designated a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth serves as...
At the end of 2025, the Trump administration implemented an unlawful policy blocking nonpartisan civic engagement groups from registering new citizens to vote at administrative naturalization ceremonies.
This blatant attempt to silence the voices of Americans has been temporarily blocked following a lawsuit filed by Campaign Legal Center on behalf...
On August 3, 2026, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Richard Blumenthal, and Representative Joe Morelle introduced the No Payoffs For Pardons Act, a bill that will mandate transparency to curb corruption in the presidential pardon process.
The Constitution's pardon power was designed to give the president a tool to correct...
After years of tireless advocacy, New Jersey voters are finally protected by a State Voting Rights Act (state VRA).
This summer, the New Jersey Legislature passed, and the governor signed, the John R. Lewis New Jersey Voter Empowerment Act (NJVEA), which provides important voting rights protections ahead of the November 2026 elections.
Campaign...
On July 23, 2026, the House of Representatives passed a version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2027 that includes the SAVE America Act. This is a cynical attempt to pass this unpopular and dangerous bill by shoehorning it into unrelated legislation. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for its passage but...
With the 2026 midterms approaching, the Trump administration and its allies have intensified a sweeping campaign to erode the safeguards that keep our elections free, fair and secure. These efforts form a clear pattern: undermining the rule of law; destabilizing election administration; and weakening our institutions and election protections.
This...
In a huge victory for Arizonans, Campaign Legal Center, our local Arizona partners, and for the fight against dark money in our elections, the Arizona Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of Proposition 211 (Prop 211), or the Voters’ Right to Know Act.
Campaign Legal Center’s campaign finance experts began working with former Arizona...
Transparency in elections is vital to ensuring that voters know who is spending money to influence their vote. Yet, wealthy special interests continue to undermine transparency through “dark money” tactics that allow them to conceal who’s spending money on election influence.
“Pop-up” super PACs are a particularly insidious way to prevent voters...
Update: On June 30, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed long standing precedent and the plain text of the Constitution that birthright citizenship is still the law of the land. The 14th Amendment and more than 100 years of Supreme Court precedent are clear: Children born in the United States are citizens.
The Trump administration's misguided and...