A Campaign Legal Center (CLC) complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in September 2020 has apparently led the FBI to investigate Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s political fundraising activities, according to an article from The Washington Post published on June 3, 2021.

Last year, CLC uncovered several instances between 2015...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has filed suit in federal court against the state of Kansas and a local District Attorney to block anti-voter provisions in H.B. 2332.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of VoteAmerica and the Voter Participation Center, two nonprofit charitable organizations focused on encouraging voters to vote by mail, seeks to block...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld the state of Michigan’s voter-approved independent redistricting commission (IRC) as constitutional in Daunt v. Benson, allowing it to proceed with public input as the data is collected from the 2020 Census.

The decision is a shot in the arm for the movement to adopt IRCs as a viable...

With the For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1) under consideration in the Senate, some politicians in Washington are nervous about losing their power over the redistricting process because the bill ends gerrymandering at the congressional level.

The bill, which enjoys majority support among voters, would take away the power of politicians to pick...

With the New York City mayoral primary election less than a month away, people are starting to pay increased attention to the election not only because of the candidates who are running or because of the vast amounts of money that are being spent but also because of the way that New Yorkers will get to select their preferred candidates.

For the...

After litigation brought by Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the Census Bureau produced a briefing memo for former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross about the bureau’s plan for estimating the undocumented immigrant population.

This was the first public disclosure showing the extent to which the Trump administration made efforts to carve out the...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) on May 20, 2021, asking for an investigation into possible House rules violations by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

McCarthy may have rented an apartment at below market rate from an influential political consultant and pollster, Frank Luntz, in...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) sent a letter to Federal Election Commission (FEC) Commissioner Sean Cooksey urging the FEC to strengthen rules concerning lawmakers’ use of their leadership PACs for personal expenses.

A leadership PAC is a political action committee (PAC) controlled by a federal candidate or officeholder that is supposed to be used...

On May 19, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed suit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) over its yearlong failure to enforce federal law against Big Tent Project Fund (Big Tent Project), which undermined voters’ right to know who is paying to influence our votes and our government. 

Big Tent Project was a Democratic nonprofit group...

On May 12, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against a mysterious entity, Tomfoolery, LLC, which gave $75,000 to a Texas-based super PAC entirely focused on supporting Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, an unsuccessful candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Texas.

Lone Star...

Gov. Doug Ducey has signed the anti-voter bill S.B. 1485 into law. This new law creates deliberate barriers for Arizonans trying to exercise their right to vote by effectively eliminating the state’s permanent early voting list (PEVL).

Before today, the PEVL allowed Arizonans to automatically receive a mail ballot from their county recorder every...

Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the anti-voter bill S.B. 90 into law on May 6, 2021. This sweeping law decreases Floridians’ ability to exercise the freedom to vote by placing restrictions on vote-by-mail, drop boxes, voter registration and nonpartisan election protection and voter assistance efforts.

S.B. 90 Is An Attack on Vote-By-Mail

Under the...

Now that the Census Bureau has released the apportionment counts for state seats in the House of Representatives, the next phase in the 2020 census cycle has taken center stage: state redistricting.

Although in a typical census cycle, the Census Bureau would have already released state redistricting data by the end of March, the COVID-19 pandemic...

Legislative district maps will be redrawn this year, and it’s important that Americans have fair representation, regardless of where they live or what they look like. 

To help raise awareness about fair redistricting in 2021, CLC organized #OurFairMaps Day on April 30 to get people talking on social media on about why redistricting and Fair Maps...

Paul Smith, vice president, strategy and litigation at Campaign Legal Center (CLC) testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights on April 27, 2021 about the ways the U.S. Supreme Court has gone astray in its decision making process in two important cases for our democracy.

Smith’s...

President Biden will deliver a speech before the joint session of Congress on April 28 – an opportunity for him to outline what policies he will prioritize in the coming year and set the tone for his presidency.

In this first major speech, Biden should state his commitment to making the promise of democracy real for us all and the importance of...

Since 2019, Campaign Legal Center’s (CLC) Restore Your Vote program has provided over $300,000 in support to grassroots and state-based organizations to conduct voting rights restoration services in their communities.

Nationwide, more than 23 million Americans have been convicted of felonies. The vast majority of those people can vote or restore...

Since the Inspector General Act of 1978, almost every federal agency has an inspector general to prevent and detect waste, fraud and abuse and to promote economic efficiency, and effectiveness in the agency’s operations and programs.

Currently, there are over a dozen of inspectors general vacancies that need to be filled, including for major...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing a coalition of civic participation groups that filed a lawsuit on April 7, 2021 in federal district court in Georgia to block a new state law, S.B. 202, which, among many other problems, restricts the distribution of vote-by-mail applications to voters.

VoteAmerica, the Voter Participation Center and the...

Ted Cruz for Senate spent up to $18,000 on Facebook advertisements exclusively promoting Cruz’s book that urged viewers to “order your copy today,” with a link to purchase the book from online booksellers like Amazon.

This action led to Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filing two complaints against Sen. Ted Cruz and his campaign committee for...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Duke University Center on Science and Technology Policy hosted a panel discussion on the regulations that govern federal reporting of political sub-vendor spending.

The panel featured Brendan Fisher, CLC Director of Federal Reform, Shana Broussard, Chair of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Jordan Lieberman...