In a win for transparency, a federal district court in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) violated federal law by failing to sufficiently explain its reasons for dismissing Campaign Legal Center (CLC)’s complaint alleging that a super PAC called “Last Best Place (LBP) PAC” violated federal campaign finance...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and our partners plan to go the U.S. Supreme Court to defend the ability of Americans to use the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to dispute unfair voting maps that dilute voters’ power based on their race. On behalf of our clients, the Spirit Lake Nation (Mni Wakan Oyate), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and individual...

As Congress debated the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” two little-known and dangerous provisions quietly emerged as serious threats to our core democratic safeguards. Thankfully, both have now been resoundingly defeated.

Because of Campaign Legal Center’s efforts, alongside the tireless work of many of our partners, both threats were...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision at the end of its 2024-2025 term that will drastically alter the ability for courts to check presidential power.  

With its decision in Trump v. CASA, a case nominally about the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, the Supreme Court sets the stage for a drastic expansion of presidential power...

Update:

On June 27, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in this case drastically expanding presidential power. The Supreme Court has kicked the can down the road in deciding whether the President's attempt to end birthright citizenship is constitutional, but in doing so threw up new road blocks to immediately halting unconstitutional executive actions...

Transparency about who is spending money to influence our government is critical to the functioning of our democracy. But legislators in North Carolina are now seeking to undo critical transparency requirements in an effort to shroud political spending — particularly the funding of electoral litigation expenses — in secrecy.

Lawmakers should reject...

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...

President Donald Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by a narrow vote of 215-214. This massive legislation — totaling more than 1,000 pages — uses a complicated congressional procedure known as “budget reconciliation” to allow the Senate to pass it with fewer votes than would normally be...

After launching a full-scale attack on our system of checks and balances and threatening the ability of our government agencies to function in service to the American people, unelected billionaire Elon Musk is leaving public office.  

Accountability for our public officials does not end when they leave government — the public deserves to know if...

Campaign Legal Center welcomes eight new members to our team for the summer: our 2025 class of summer legal interns. The summer interns are current law students who will work with CLC's full time staff to help advance our work in the areas of voting rights, redistricting, campaign finance and government ethics.

Welcome, team!

Meet the Interns

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The exorbitant price of inaugurations — and the fact that inaugural committees can accept unlimited donations, as well as corporate money — make them an ideal means for wealthy special interests to buy political access and influence, ultimately drowning out the voices of everyday Americans.

For example, according to new disclosures, the...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has been sounding the alarm since before President Trump’s second administration even began that the president’s blatant disregard for ethics laws and norms could pave the way for corruption, the misuse of taxpayer funds and personal enrichment over the public good.  

Now, it appears that members of his administration are...

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...

In a win for government transparency and ethics enforcement, the U.S. House of Representatives just approved four nominees to the governing board of the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC).

The announcement comes on the heels of a letter Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and 19 partners sent to House leadership calling on them to approve the OCC board....

Any attempt to limit the freedom to vote is an attempt to silence American voices. All across the country, states have been passing bills that would require voters to provide unnecessary and difficult-to-obtain documentation in order to register to vote.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has been at the forefront of challenging these laws because our...

In America, a core principle of our democracy is one person, one vote. That principle — which is rooted in law and which courts have upheld time and again — aims to ensure every American’s voice is heard and every vote counts equally.  

However, the way some states draw their electoral districts can violate this principle and lead to unfair...

In a victory for North Carolina voters, thousands of voters will be able to make their voices heard and not have their ballots wrongly discarded for the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court race between incumbent Justice Allison Riggs and Judge Jefferson Griffin. As a result, Riggs will retain her seat on the state high court.  

The courts affirmed...

Transparency is tremendously important for our democracy to function effectively. Voters should know who is spending money to influence their vote — which is why we have laws barring wealthy special interests from using secret campaign funds to buy favor with elected officials.  

Federal campaign finance laws protect voters from a corrupt, pay-to...

The first 100 days of a presidential term says a lot about a president’s policy goals, and it also provides Americans insight into how a president intends to govern over the next four years.

For President Donald Trump, the first 100 days has been characterized by a period of blatant disrespect of the rule of law, our system of checks and balances...

The freedom to vote is at the core of a strong democracy. But recently, politicians — from state houses to the White House — have tried to limit that freedom, and consequently, weaken our democracy.

State-level documentation laws, the SAVE Act and President Trump's executive order on voting would all have the same effect: making it harder for...

In a victory for American voters, a key part of the president’s recent executive order on elections was successfully halted. The president attempted to act beyond his power by unconstitutionally trying to establish new voter registration requirements and directing an independent agency to make drastic changes to our elections.    

Campaign Legal...