A federal appeals court has unanimously upheld a lower court decision to deny an attempt by the Michigan Republican Party and special interests to undermine Michigan’s voter-initiated Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission by delaying its implementation.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing Voters Not Politicians in the case to...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined more than 150 organizations led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights in signing a letter that called on Congress to fully fund and direct states and counties to administer the 2020 elections in a safe, fair, and accessible manner. The groups advocated for the implementation of vote-by-mail, the...

As record numbers of Americans file for unemployment, entering a new stage of economic precarity, President Trump continues to strategically unravel the oversight of the two-trillion dollar pandemic stimulus funds meant to keep them and their families afloat. And potentially for the long term.

His decisive actions to weaken the oversight bodies...

The practical challenges of voting amid the coronavirus pandemic has tested our election infrastructure and exposed vulnerabilities in our election system during this spring’s primary elections.

As two prominent experts that have worked in Republican administrations have noted, “The goal of a democracy should be that every eligible voter has the...

Following Russia’s use of social media to meddle in the 2016 elections, and facing pressure from Congress, large platforms like Facebook and Google began voluntarily instituting new transparency requirements last election cycle. These companies now maintain public repositories of political ads, along with information about whom the ads targeted and...

Wealthy special interests might soon get an opportunity to influence the process by which presidential electors in the Electoral College cast their deciding votes in 2020 and beyond.

As Adav Noti, senior trial litigator and chief of staff at CLC outlined in a recent op-ed, this summer, the Supreme Court is scheduled to decide Chiafalo v...

A federal judge confirmed that any decision he issues in Florida’s rights restoration case, Jones v. DeSantis, would apply to all Floridians who would otherwise be eligible for rights restoration, but for their ability to pay off their fines and fees.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) represents three individual plaintiffs with past felony convictions...

On April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision declining to extend the deadline for absentee voting in today’s elections in Wisconsin by six days.

Due to rising health concerns, an unprecedented number of Wisconsin voters – recently encouraged by public officials – have turned to voting absentee. This has put a strain on election clerks that...

In the last decade, the elimination of corporate campaign contributions, the availability of vast amounts of personal information, and strategizing by party officials who want to maintain power have made it more difficult for millions of people’s votes to count in states across the country.

But people are fighting back. That is the message of...

On March 24, an hour before President Donald Trump alarmed public health experts by saying he wanted to “have the country opened up” by Easter in order to restart the economy, he and Vice President Mike Pence hopped on the phone with a few wealthy Wall Street executives. One of the executives on that call, according to reporting, was Blackstone CEO...

In a victory for voting rights, Tennessee lawmakers have repealed burdensome restrictions enacted after the 2018 election that imposed harsh penalties on community voter registration efforts. Campaign Legal Center (CLC), along with its partners, represented several organizations that conduct voter registration efforts in Tennessee in a lawsuit...

The goal of the 2020 Census is to count all U.S. residents where they live on April 1, known as “Census Day.” This task was always going to be monumental, but the coronavirus pandemic has made it clear that a successful census will take an unprecedented effort, both from the federal government and from communities around the country.

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As public health precautions around the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause disruptions and delays to the ongoing primary elections, states must take steps now to ensure that the general election in November runs smoothly. Voters should not have to choose between public health and a functioning democracy.

On March 30, 2020 Campaign Legal...

Now more than ever, voters are seeking reforms to ensure a more responsive and accountable government. Thus, it is good news that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear arguments in Elster v. City of Seattle, a challenge to Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program, which was approved by over 60% of city voters in 2015. The program – which went into...

Michael Bloomberg poured nearly $1 billion into his run for the Democratic presidential nomination and lost. But there were a few winners from his ill-fated campaign: television stations in early primary states, a handful of political consultants, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). 

Despite laws capping contributions to the DNC at $35...

More examples continue to emerge of members of Congress prioritizing their personal interests over the public interest. They range from the sentencing of former Rep. Duncan Hunter for spending over $150,000 of campaign funds on personal expenses to Sen. Richard Burr offloading millions of dollars of stock shortly after a closed-door Senate briefing...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) sent a letter to members of Congress on Mar. 24, 2020, asking them to include $2 billion in the latest economic stimulus legislation to ensure the integrity of our country’s election infrastructure in the 2020 primaries and general election.

During the coronavirus pandemic, additional funding is necessary to help states...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing the grassroots group Voters Not Politicians to try to turn back a legal challenge to the democratically enacted independent redistricting commission (IRC) in Michigan. CLC will present oral arguments in the consolidated cases, Daunt v. Benson and Michigan Republican Party v. Benson on Mar. 17, 2020.

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In times of uncertainty, American citizens should be able to count on being able to vote for their candidates of choice. 

During other historically extraordinary events, like the Civil War or World War I, elections were not canceled or postponed. American citizens were able to practice one of their most basic rights – as we should be able to now...

In times of crisis and panic, it is vital that Americans can trust leaders to determine what course of action is best for the public’s health and safety. Unfortunately, when the country’s most senior official is riddled with conflicts of interest, it becomes hard to sustain that trust.

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the U.S...

In his home state of Texas, James “Trey” Trainor worked to undermine and defund the Ethics Commission tasked with regulating campaign finance laws.

Yet, on March 10, 2020 he will go before the Senate as a nominee for the Federal Election Commission (FEC) – the only government agency solely responsible for enforcing the campaign finance laws for...