Civic engagement groups in Missouri achieved a major win following a years-long battle against laws that criminalized voter engagement efforts and chilled the freedom of speech of organizations whose priorities are to register and educate voters.

The Supreme Court of Missouri upheld a 2024 ruling that blocked four anti-voter provisions of Missouri’s...

The first year of President Donald Trump’s second administration featured consistent patterns of unethical behavior across the government, and little enforcement of ethics laws in response.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) identified 27 violations of ethics norms and rules and impaired enforcement in just the first 100 days in office, while filing 10...

When voters elect a president, they expect presidential power to be used to serve the public good — not to advance the narrow interests of political loyalists or wealthy donors.

Yet, since returning to office, President Donald Trump has normalized political corruption and abused public trust — including by transforming the presidential pardon power...

After years of litigation, decades of community advocacy and a sustained effort by the community’s Black, Latino and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, Virginia Beach, Virginia, is officially set to conduct all future City Council elections using a “10-1” election system that ensures all voters in the city will have an equal...

On March 4, 2026, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) requesting an investigation into whether FBI Director Kash Patel violated federal travel regulations and standards of conduct by failing to reimburse the government for at least 10 trips that apparently...

Transparency in elections is essential for citizens to cast an informed vote and meaningfully participate in the democratic process — but the ever-increasing amount of secret spending in our political process means that voters are more in the dark than ever before on who is spending money to influence their decisions.  

A newly reintroduced bill in...

On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, approximately 600 civil rights advocates set out to march to Alabama’s capital, Montgomery, to demand voting rights for Black Americans in the face of discriminatory laws and practices.

At the time, Black voters faced numerous obstacles when trying to register to vote, including literacy tests, poll taxes...

Utahns have been fighting for fair maps in Utah for nearly a decade and a ruling today once again has solidified that voters in the state will vote under a fair map this year.  

After a momentous victory in a state court case where the judge ruled in favor of a map that our clients, the League of Women Voters of Utah (LWVUT) and Mormon Women for...

For almost a decade, Utahns have been fighting for fair voting maps and fair representation. Yet, every time Utah voters score a victory in this fight, a new hurdle materializes that prevents these efforts from moving forward in time for the next election.  

As we get closer to the 2026 midterm elections, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is continuing to...

When donors give political candidates money to support their candidacy, they expect these funds to be used only for campaign-related or official purposes.  

That expectation is underpinned by federal law, which clearly outlines that campaign funds may not be used to pay for a candidate or officeholder’s personal expenses, even after they leave...

Voters have a right to know who is spending money to influence their vote and their government. Federal campaign finance laws protect this right by requiring federal candidates and committees — including super PACs — to disclose their contributors and prohibiting contributions made through a pass-through or “straw donor.”

A straw donation involves a...

For years, Campaign Legal Center has worked nationwide to stop discriminatory measures that target voters through burdensome, unnecessary barriers to the freedom to vote and illegal voter purges.

But a new law in Ohio — Senate Bill (SB) 293 — continues a troubling trend that puts all voters, but particularly those who are naturalized citizens, at...

One of the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) core functions is ensuring that the money raised and spent on elections is transparent.  

However, it has failed to carry out this mission with regard to national political parties, which — pursuant to legislative amendments passed in 2014 — can accept dramatically larger contributions to fund certain...

In a victory for American voters, two key parts of President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order on elections have been successfully and permanently halted.  

The president acted beyond his legal authority by unconstitutionally trying to mandate new voter registration requirements, direct an independent agency to make drastic changes to our...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is calling for an investigation into yet another blatant example of the Trump administration’s conflicts of interest with cryptocurrency.  

In a complaint to the Office of Inspectors General at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), CLC is demanding an investigation into whether Todd Blanche, deputy attorney general  and...

The widespread corruption and dysfunction plaguing our political process and government are largely the result of our broken campaign finance system, which has for decades favored wealthy donors over voters and failed to provide real transparency and accountability regarding the sources of massive election spending and influence. 

Policies favored...

The federal government's repeated failure to enact stronger voting rights protections means states must take a more proactive role in passing laws that protect the freedom to vote for all Americans.

This issue is particularly important given the weakening of federal voting rights laws by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the proliferation of anti-voter...

Voters have a right to know which wealthy special interests are spending big money to influence their decisions and their government to rig the political system in their favor. 

But years of living under the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC), commonly known as Citizens United, has made it easier than...

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...

On December 24, 2025, the United States Postal Service (USPS) published revisions to the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) regarding USPS’s policies and operations related to the use of postmarks, prompting questions about how these revisions may affect mail voting.  

In USPS’s own words, the newly adopted Section 608.11 of the DMM “is intended to explain...

President Donald Trump is using the pardon power to attempt to erase accountability, reward those who helped him attack the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, and rewrite the history of what happened that day.

These pardons send an unmistakable message: Those who help subvert an election to help President Trump will be rewarded rather than...