Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that two separate super PACs violated federal law by coordinating over $8 million in expenditures to two Democratic Senate campaigns in Mississippi and Kentucky.
Ditch Fund and March On PAC, illegally coordinated with the U.S. Senate Campaigns of...
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) hosted the public education call “Understanding the State of Democracy Reform Through 2020 Ballot Initiatives.”
CLC experts Caleb Jackson, legal counsel, voting rights, and Danielle Lang, co-director of voting rights and redistricting, were joined by special guests Sean Nicholson, senior content strategist and research...
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has successfully defended Michigan’s voter-approved independent redistricting commission from two legal challenges. This follows historic action taken by the state’s voters to curb the undemocratic practice of partisan gerrymandering.
In 2018, Michigan decided to put voters – not politicians – in charge of drawing...
President-elect Joe Biden’s 2021 inaugural is expected to be much smaller and cost far less than past transfers of power, so why is Biden’s inaugural committee accepting $1 million in corporate checks?
Past inaugural celebrations have featured days of packed events and galas, but thanks to the global pandemic, Biden’s inaugural events will mostly...
As we've passed the “safe harbor deadline” — the day when Electoral College votes are essentially “locked in” to be accepted by Congress — why are President Trump and the Republican Party continuing to challenge the presidential election outcome, even though it’s over?
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) President Trevor Potter discussed this question...
Earlier this year, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that six companies violated the federal contractor contribution ban by donating to super PACs.
The 80-year-old ban on federal contractors making political donations protects against the appearance or reality that taxpayer-funded...
In American politics, money won’t ensure victory, but it will give you a greater chance to win.
Campaigning in the United States gets more expensive every cycle, and the 2020 general elections are projected to have cost an unprecedented $14 billion. Political ad spending topped $1.5 billion this year in the presidential race alone.
The role of...
More than two years after CLC filed a 115-page complaint with the Department of Commerce Inspector General asking for an investigation into Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’ many apparent conflicts of interest, the inspector general has issued its report, finding that Secretary Ross did, in fact, violate ethics rules designed to protect the public...
CLC filed an amicus brief in New Jersey Bankers Association v. Grewal supporting the state of New Jersey’s defense of its century-old law prohibiting campaign contributions from banks and certain other corporations.
In this case, the New Jersey Bankers Association, a trade association of regional banks, is challenging the constitutionality of New...
On Dec. 3, 2020, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the Tennessee Conference of the NAACP, and five Tennessee residents – who tried to restore their right to vote in November’s general election but were denied – filed a lawsuit challenging the systemic failure of Tennessee’s voting rights restoration process.
Our most fundamental right as Americans is...
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has joined a nonpartisan coalition, Open the Government, in calling on the Biden administration to implement an agenda of robust ethics reforms. The agenda, called Accountability 2021, includes a broad range of accountability principles that are designed to guide executive and legislative priorities for the incoming...
Maybe you've heard of ranked choice voting (RCV)—it's been passed in Alaska and Maine, and many cities and localities across the country use it, too—but you’re unsure what it’s about.
Or maybe you haven’t heard about it at all!
CLC has you covered.
We’ve put together a short video explaining ranked choice voting: what it is, how it works, and...
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and a coalition of voting rights advocacy groups are urging Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to institute a series of key voting rights reforms to make voting safer and more secure.
With a pivotal Senate runoff election in Georgia scheduled for Jan. 5, 2021, and with COVID-19 cases surging throughout much...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. New York—a case with high stakes about how government representation will be apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Electoral College for the next decade.
The central question is whether President Trump can unilaterally exclude undocumented immigrants from...
President Trump has reached out directly to Republican state legislators from Michigan and invited them to the White House on Friday for discussions as the state prepares to certify President-elect Joe Biden, who won the state by over 145,000 votes.
The certification of election results is a formality – the public announcement of what the voters...
Last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham solicited campaign contributions while on government property in the final days of his 2020 Senate race, in violation of federal law and Senate ethics rules. Now, Sen. Kelly Loeffler has committed the same offense. Will the Senate Ethics Committee stop this pattern, or will their silence on the issue green light the...
Many people are wondering whether the 2020 general election is officially over. While all the votes have been cast and national media outlets called the presidential race for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris back on Nov. 6, there are still several things that need to happen before the results are official. So what...
Alaska voters have propelled the state forward by enacting comprehensive democracy reform with wide-reaching effects on state elections.
By passing Ballot Measure 2, Alaskans will know the true source of election spending by shining light on the sources of dark money, as well as providing voters with greater choice in their elections through open...
Today, the U.S. Senate will consider the nominations of three new commissioners to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
The FEC has a critical role. It is the only government agency exclusively charged with enforcing and administering the nation’s anti-corruption laws, such as those requiring transparency in political spending.
Restoring the...
The 2020 general election saw record voter turnout, breaking records for the highest number of votes cast for a presidential candidate, as well as the number of votes cast for the losing candidate.
This was made possible by safe, secure voting policies that were adopted in most states to keep people safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. These...
The 2020 general election is projected to have had the highest voter turnout in more than a century—since the election of 1900, when William McKinley won reelection and a much smaller portion of the U.S. population was even eligible to vote.
Faced with a global pandemic, voters showed up in record numbers. As of this writing, around 160 million...