The Texas Senate passed S.B. 7, a bill that severely restricts the right of Texans to vote, on March 7, 2021. If signed into law, this proposal would erect more deliberate barriers to voting, prohibiting local efforts to expand voting access and silencing Texans in the process.

S.B. 7 makes it harder for people to vote by cutting early voting hours...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is organizing a social media testimonial campaign on April 30—#OurFairMaps Day—to raise awareness about fair redistricting in 2021. 

Maps will be redrawn this year, and CLC wants to encourage people to get talking on social media on about why redistricting and Fair Maps matter to them. 

CLC’s goal: to ask people and...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Common Cause and League of Women Voters of California (LWV) submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra.

The brief urges the Court to uphold California’s law that requires charitable groups...

On March 31, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed into law the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, H.B. 1890, establishing Virginia as a national leader in protecting voting rights for communities of color.

The federal Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, which prohibited discrimination in voting based on race, color or membership in a language...

On March 31, 2021, a federal court declared Virginia Beach, Virginia’s method of conducting elections illegal because it dilutes the voting power of the minority community.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) served as counsel for plaintiffs Latasha Holloway and Georgia Allen and proved at trial that the election system for city council did not comply...

Campaign Legal Center Action (CLCA) and Common Cause Georgia filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that during the lead up to the Georgia Senate runoff election the Georgia Republican Party illegally coordinated with True the Vote.

In December 2020, the Georgia Republican Party requested the assistance of True the...

Trevor Potter, president of Campaign Legal Center (CLC), first appeared on the “Colbert Report” to educate the public about political action committees (PAC) on March 30, 2011. One of the issues brought to light in his series of appearances was how easy it is for candidates and super PACs to illegally coordinate campaign spending.

A decade later...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed an omnibus bill into law on March 25, 2021 that will make sweeping changes to the state’s election procedures, making it significantly harder to vote following record turnout in the 2020 elections.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is among the co-counsel representing FairFight Action in FairFight Action v. Raffensperger, a...

Trevor Potter, president of Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Republican former chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration in support of the For the People Act (S.1) on March 24, 2021.

The hearing on S.1, a sweeping legislative package that will crack down on political...

The For the People Act (H.R.1/S. 1) is a once-in-a-generation transformative legislative package. If passed, it will move the country’s political system closer to the American ideal of an inclusive democracy.

The sweeping bill would fix our elections by reducing the influence of wealthy special interests in our politics and ensuring Americans have...

Citizen-led state ballot initiatives play an important role in making democracy more accountable, transparent and inclusive. By establishing independent redistricting commissions (IRC), strengthening donor disclosure laws and creating independent ethics commissions, voters have ensured that their government works for them rather than politicians or...

Congress proposed the 26th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to lower the voting age to 18 for all local, state, and federal elections on March 23, 1971. This victory affirmed the right of all legal adults to participate in the democratic process.

The 26th Amendment was borne of youth activism. At the height of the Vietnam War, young people...

Trevor Potter, president of Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Republican former chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) will testify before the United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration on Wednesday, March 24th. The hearing begins at 10 a.m. EDT.

The hearing on the For the People Act, legislation that will strengthen our...

For decades, federal law has prohibited foreign interference in federal, state, and local elections. Despite this general federal ban, the law has significant loopholes that have been exploited by foreign interests as recently as the 2020 elections.

The federal ban has not been updated since the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will hear arguments in Daunt v Benson on March 17, 2021. This case challenges the constitutionality of voter-approved reforms designed to end gerrymandering in Michigan.

The decision could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and would impact the movement to adopt independent redistricting...

For the first time in a generation, sweeping campaign finance reforms are on the verge of passing Congress. To reduce political corruption, we need real transparency about who is spending big money on elections.

Many of the provisions in the For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1) are designed to crackdown on corruption in both parties.

Specifically...

A new poll commissioned by the right-leaning R Street Institute found that 57% of Republican voters support independent redistricting commissions (IRC).

With a strong majority of polled Republican voters supporting IRCs, this new finding reinforces the fact that public opposition to politician control over the redistricting process is bipartisan...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) on March 8, 2021 against Rep. Tom Malinowski for allegedly violating the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act.

Between 2019 and 2021, Malinowski made more than 100 trades with a total value ranging from approximately $1.3 million to $5...

It has been 56 years since the “Bloody Sunday” March on Selma that finally generated the popular will for former President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign into law the Voting Rights Act (VRA), our country’s best defense against racial discrimination in elections.

On March 7, 1965, civil rights icon and former Rep. John Lewis and 600 other activists...

After a record 4.9 million Floridians voted by mail in 2020, some Florida legislators are moving to restrict access to that option. Their proposals, backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, seek to limit vote-by-mail on a number of fronts, including by purging vote-by-mail registration rolls before the 2022 elections, limiting who can drop off mail-in ballots...

Across the political spectrum, four-out-of-five Americans consistently support greater transparency in our democratic process. Yet a growing number of state legislatures around the country are moving to block public access to information about who is spending big money to secretly influence our vote and our government.

Last week, South Dakota...