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States Lead in Fight Against Foreign Interference

While Congress Sits on the Honest Ads Act

States Lead in Fight Against Foreign Interference

While Congress Sits on the Honest Ads Act
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What Can Be Done to Combat Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections?

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Paying Defense Lawyers With Campaign Cash is Better Than Secret Slush Funds

In the Special Counsel’s investigation, paying defense lawyers with campaign cash is better than secret slush funds.
July 13, 2018
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Campaign Finance

CLC Files Complaint with FEC: Trump Campaign Violated Campaign Finance Laws

Today, CLC filed a complaint with the FEC urging it to investigate Donald Trump, his 2016 campaign committee, and the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
July 11, 2018
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Campaign Finance

CLC Played Important Role in Exposing Scott Pruitt’s Misconduct While at EPA

After months of mounting ethics scandals and apparent legal violations that have spurred numerous agency investigations, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday.
July 6, 2018
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Ethics

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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.

CLC's Blair Bowie speaks to Alabama citizen about her voting rights

CLC Goes Door-to-Door in Alabama to Educate Voters with Past Convictions

Plaintiff Ann Reynolds, disenfranchised voter, with attorney Danielle Lang

Alabama's Silenced Voters Tell Their Stories

Partisan gerrymandering...is 'incompatible with democratic principles.' More effectively every day, that practice enables politicians to entrench themselves in power against the people's will. And only the courts can do anything to remedy the problem.
Justice Elena Kagan, Concurrence in Gill v. Whitford, June 18, 2018
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Dark Money Threatens Our Elections