On August 31, 2020, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by President Trump, which challenges New Jersey’s plan to send all active registered voters a vote-by-mail ballot during the pandemic.

CLC is joined by the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and will be representing two clients, NAACP-New Jersey...

Voters should rest assured that there are systems in place to ensure that all votes are counted.

Due to the on-going health threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important that Americans from every race and ethnicity, particularly those concerned about their health, are able to vote by absentee or mail ballot to ensure their participation...

The District of Columbia Circuit Court affirmed that a Federal Election Commission (FEC) rule impermissibly allowed groups to spend big money in federal elections without disclosing key information about their funders.

This decision is a win for transparency, and it underscores an important but often-overlooked reality of our current campaign...

A week ago, we wrote about ensuring that the U.S. Postal Service will be able to support a fair election. Sadly, even after two Congressional hearings, there seem to be more questions than answers. 

First, we don’t really know what changes in mail service the Postal Service may still make, even after its promise to “suspend” changes that impacted...

The coronavirus pandemic has caused the world to rethink many aspects of our day to day interactions and our civic duties – like casting a ballot.

Now, more than ever, voters need alternatives to in-person voting. Vote-by-mail and absentee voting are safe and secure alternatives for eligible voters to exercise their right to vote and stay safe...

The arrest of Ohio Rep. Larry Householder, Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, on federal corruption and racketeering charges has rocked Ohio politics.

The underlying scheme leading to his arrest has, unfortunately, provided the people of Ohio a stark illustration of how wealthy special interests can use particular types of...

Q: What is the Hatch Act, and who is covered under it?

A: The Hatch Act is a law that tries to ensure federal employees can do their jobs in a nonpartisan manner that is free of coercion. It has requirements for keeping political activities separate from activities that federal officials do on behalf of the public.

Under this law, most federal...

Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and related economic crisis, executives in the meatpacking industry have poured millions of dollars into our political system to curry favor with powerful politicians in an effort to protect their own interests at the expense of their employees.

A dangerous workplace even before the pandemic, meatpacking...

President Donald Trump is reportedly scheduled to use the White House South Lawn on Thursday to accept his nomination for the presidency to culminate this week’s Republican National Convention (RNC).

If Trump were to deliver his speech there, he would violate ethics laws and norms meant to keep the work that federal employees do on behalf of the...

Postal workers and voting rights advocates around the country have raised concerns this summer about changes to United States Postal Service (USPS) policies announced in August 2020 by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. The changes included cutting overtime, reducing delivery trips, and limiting post office hours, which workers said were causing...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and its partners were back in court on August 18, 2020 to seek voting rights restoration for people that have been victimized by Florida’s pay-to-vote scheme. A victory in Jones v. DeSantis may enable hundreds of thousands of people to register to vote in time for the November election.

CLC’s Vice President, Ligitation...

I’m sure I had vaguely understood what feminism was in high school. But it wasn’t until I got to college that I started hearing murmurs that women could do anything. What a strange thing to say, I thought.

I attended an all-girls high school, so whenever someone won an award for being the best at something, it was a girl—fastest runner, highest...

To reduce political corruption, we need real transparency about who is spending big money on elections so that politicians can no longer receive unlimited, secret money from wealthy special interests to support their campaigns. Voters should be able to make informed decisions on Election Day and hold politicians accountable.

Fortunately, there...

President Donald Trump said in an interview on Fox Business Network that he is opposed to funding the United States Postal Service because it needs the money for mail-in voting, and without proper funding, it is not equipped to handle a surge in the fall. Both Democrats and Republicans use mail-in voting and absentee ballots because it is a proven...

On August 13, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the Republican National Committee to reinstate a requirement that would force absentee voters in Rhode Island to find two witnesses or a notary public to sign absentee ballots for them to count.

Rhode Island was in the minority of states with such a requirement. This is a good...

When President Richard Nixon resigned 46 years ago, in the wake of the Watergate scandal that shook the nation, he spoke of “healing the wounds of this Nation.” He concluded that to heal from one of the largest political scandals the country had ever seen, orchestrated by Nixon and his administration, he must resign.

Despite his personal desires...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law on August 6, 1965, exactly 55-years-ago today. The best way to honor this anniversary would be to offset the damage done by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to gut the VRA by restoring the law to protect communities of color from assaults on their voting rights.

The recent...

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed an executive order on August 5, 2020 restoring voting rights to most people with felony convictions who have served their time. Iowa was the last state in the U.S. to make all people with felony convictions apply for clemency and receive an individual order restoring that person’s voting rights.

Iowans with past...

In response to a recent tweet from President Donald Trump, several prominent Republican lawmakers reminded the President that the U.S. Constitution clearly mandates when the election for President must be held.

Many of these lawmakers made reference to Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress the authority to determine the timing...

On July 30, 2020, President Donald Trump suggested the possibility that the Nov. 3, 2020 presidential election might be delayed, saying on Twitter without evidence that the results of voting in November would be flawed.

Suggesting the possibility of moving the general election is an extraordinary statement for a sitting President to make and is...

Super PACs are required to publicly disclose all of their donors. But in the last three months alone, super PACs on both sides of the political spectrum have hidden the true source of tens of millions of dollars of campaign contributions. 

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, super PACs may raise unlimited amounts from...