Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has filed an amicus brief in Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Inc. et al v. Griswold et al in support of Colorado voters’ right to know who is spending money to influence their votes in ballot measure elections.

The provisions challenged by Colorado Union of Taxpayers (CUT) give voters in Colorado key information necessary...

Multiple members of Congress, representing both major parties, are dropping the ball (intentionally or otherwise) when it comes to disclosing all of their sources of income. Unfortunately, there are no indications of ethics enforcement to deter this behavior.

With accurate and complete information about a candidate’s sources of income, voters have...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Law Forward, Inc. and Stafford Rosenbaum LLP filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on Aug. 23, 2021 on behalf of nonpartisan groups and individual voters challenging Wisconsin’s state legislative map, which the 2020 census has revealed to have unequally populated districts...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, otherwise known as H.R. 4 or the VRAA, on Aug. 24, 2021, taking a critical step to prevent states from passing voting laws that discriminate against racial minorities.

Now the Senate should follow the House’s lead and pass this bill to protect Americans’ freedom...

By failing to properly disclose over 700 stock trades in the past year, Rep. Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee joins a growing, bipartisan list of elected officials showcasing how the current ethics enforcement system in Congress is simply not working.

Built on a foundation of self-policing in which members of Congress are responsible for enforcing...

On the campaign trail, then-candidate Joe Biden promised a “government [that] works for the people”—not wealthy special interests, lobbyists or big political donors.

After the rampant ethics abuses of the Trump administration, the public expected a quick rebuke through executive action and legislative priorities. Now that we have passed the 200...

On behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and its Colorado affiliate, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed comments today urging The Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission to redraw its proposed voting maps.

The comments letter raised concerns that the proposed maps would weaken minority voting power in violation of...

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell introduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, otherwise known as the VRAA or H.R. 4 on Aug. 17, 2021. The Voting Rights Act had a long track record of earning overwhelming bipartisan support.

The House is expected to pass the bill the week of August 23. Then the pressure will be on the Senate to act.

Whatever...

The Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Pima County Recorder’s Office announced a settlement agreement has been reached in Pascua Yaqui Tribe v. Rodriguez on Aug. 16, 2021.  

This settlement represents a significant victory for the reservation’s 4,000 residents, ending a long-running dispute stemming from a controversial decision...

Sen. Rand Paul is far from the first member of Congress to violate the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, a law created to give voters real time transparency into the financial interests of their elected officials.

So far this year, Campaign Legal Center has filed multiple complaints against members of Congress from both parties...

How does the U.S. Census data release impact the map drawing process that occurs once every 10 years? How do I know if my state is drawing a gerrymandered map? These are all questions being asked this week.

On Aug. 12, 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau released the data from the 2020 census which will be used to redraw voting districts across the...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) released a report grading states on their 2021 legislative sessions on Aug. 11, 2021. This is the first report to zoom in on how states have changed their vote-by-mail and early voting laws this year, finding that seven states enacted restrictive laws in the first half of the year.

The report uses a 10-point scale to...

There are few provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) that regulate a narrower slice of campaign activity while simultaneously advancing a stronger anti-corruption interest than the post-election loan repayment limit challenged by Sen. Ted Cruz in a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Until about two years ago, when the senator...

Campaign Legal Center Action (CLCA) and End Citizens United (ECU) sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Aug. 9, 2021 after the Commission deadlocked, dismissing ECU’s complaint regarding coordination between Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and a super PAC. 

ECU had filed a complaint with the FEC to hold Scott accountable for coordination with New...

In preparation for the August 16 release of redistricting data by the U.S. Census Bureau to the states, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is relaunching PlanScore.org, an empowering online tool to measure voting maps and evaluate them for partisan impact.

As the 2021 map drawing cycle heats up, PlanScore will collect and analyze new district plans as they...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) officially took a preliminary—but important—step toward cracking down on the use of shell companies to hide campaign spending on Aug. 5, 2021.

The FEC is asking members of the public to comment on a request from Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and the Center on Science & Technology Policy at Duke University (CSTP)...

President Richard Nixon resigned from office just weeks after releasing Oval Office tape recordings that revealed the extent of his involvement in the Watergate scandal on this month in 1974. Amid that scandal, Nixon famously  declared: “People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

But how did the...

By Grace Thomas, a Summer 2021 CLC intern

Like clockwork every even year, the first Tuesday of November is a national election day. Election Day was not randomly chosen though. In 1845, Congress selected the most convenient day to hold a national election day for the greatest number of voters at the time—farmers.

Since Saturdays and Sundays were...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed complaints with congressional ethics offices against three freshman members of Congress—Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) and Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT)—for failure to comply with the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act on July 29, 2021.  

Under the STOCK Act, members of Congress...

When the Voting Rights Act (VRA) was last renewed in 2006, it received overwhelming support from both parties in Congress. Later this year, when the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is introduced, it should again receive bipartisan support because it would stop future racially discriminatory proposals from being enacted, thus protecting...

It is with much sadness that Campaign Legal Center (CLC) mourns the loss of Bob Moses, a civil rights hero and educator who registered thousands of Black voters and used a grassroots approach to organize and the build the political will to sign the 1965 Voting Rights Act into law, which helped ensure equal access to the ballot for all Americans.