Ethical concerns have plagued the Interior Department since former lobbyist David Bernhardt took a top spot at the agency, and they do not seem to be going away anytime soon. 

A trove of recently-published emails between Bernhardt, while he was still Deputy Secretary, and the agency’s ethics staff offer an inside look into the flaws in Interior’s...

President Trump was ordered by a New York court to personally pay $2 million in damages for improperly using the Trump Foundation to support his 2016 presidential run. Those same activities also implicate campaign finance law. 

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a supplemental complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Nov. 21, 2019...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) released findings from two bipartisan polls where voters expressed overwhelming support for increased transparency in election related contributions and for the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to take a more active role in enforcing campaign finance laws.

Voters have a right to know which wealthy special interests are...

Rudy Giuliani has been tasked with conducting U.S. foreign policy while retaining unknown private clients, and should be subject to the conflict of interest and other ethics laws that apply to federal employees.

A new letter sent by Campaign Legal Center to the State Department’s Inspector General requests an investigation into Giuliani and his...

Campaign Legal Center and the League of Women Voters sent a letter on Nov. 8, 2019 to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger expressing grave concerns regarding the planned purge of over 300,000 Georgia voters from the voter registration list. The letter also outlines potential violations of federal and state law.

The letter urges Secretary...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and partners filed a lawsuit in 2018 on behalf of all late-jailed voters in Ohio seeking access to the ballot and the ability to exercise their right to vote. This resulted in CLC’s clients being allowed to vote in the 2018 midterm elections, but CLC still worked to ensure that the state’s practice would no longer be...

On her way out of office, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen appears to have used campaign funds for a family trip to Disney and for thousands of dollars of expenditures at luxury hotels in New York and Miami.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate this apparent violation of the ban on the...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and End Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), alleging that during the 2018 election, President Trump’s “approved” super PAC, America First Action (AFA), made up to $6.6 million in illegally coordinated expenditures supporting Rep. Pete Sessions in Texas, and U.S. Senate candidates...

In an op-ed published in The Washington Post, Campaign Legal Center’s Trevor Potter and Delaney Marsco explain why the lack of transparency surrounding Rudy Giuliani’s income is a problem, and why the financial disclosure ordinarily required for individuals representing the U.S. government is so important.

“Giuliani has confirmed that he was paid...

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and a coalition of 35 other organizations sent a letter to Congress urging members to support the SHIELD Act, which would protect U.S. elections against the ongoing threat of foreign intervention.

With a floor vote expected on October 23, 2019, the coalition emphasized that the critical legislation will help safeguard...

Judge Robert Hinkle for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled on Oct. 18, 2019 that it is unconstitutional to deny individuals with past convictions the right to vote based on their inability to pay fines and fees.

In an op-ed published in the Orlando Sentinel, Campaign Legal Center’s Danielle Lang analyzes the recent...

Judge Robert Hinkle for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida issued an opinion ruling that it is unconstitutional to deny individuals with past convictions the right to vote based on their inability to pay fines and fees.

The decision restores the right to vote to plaintiffs who are otherwise eligible to vote but are unable...

For the past 40 years, every president has placed his personal investments and assets in a blind trust while in the White House, or has sold everything and held cash equivalents. This was a norm that was respected by presidents of both parties. We are now seeing the natural and very serious consequences of President Donald Trump's decision to...

Campaign Legal Center hosted “Yes, Asking Foreign Governments for Political Favors Breaks the Law,” a conference call on foreign election interference, the president’s recent campaign finance violations, and abuses of power.

During the call, CLC experts discussed the criminal indictment of two Ukrainian-Americans for campaign finance violations...

The stunning arrest of Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas on criminal campaign finance charges arose directly from Campaign Legal Center’s (CLC’s) complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on this matter last year—and underscores the key roles these mysterious Rudy Giuliani associates with ties to Ukraine and big money have played in setting into...

Two Ukrainian-Americans who had been working with President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on Ukrainian matters, were arrested late Wednesday for violating campaign finance laws. These arrests stemmed from a Campaign Legal Center (CLC) complaint.

In July 2018, CLC uncovered how these two men had laundered a six-figure contribution to...

CLC President Trevor Potter has joined a group of conservative and libertarian lawyers, most of whom have served in senior positions in Republican Administrations, to stand firm against foreign interference in American elections.

In an open letter, reported on by The Washington Post, the group states that the president’s recent interactions with...

According to an op-ed published in Talking Points Memo by CLC’s Paul Smith, Americans should be wary of “faithless electors” — presidential electors who can cast their vote for anyone, regardless of how the state voted and regardless of whether the elector pledged to support the state winner.  

Two lower courts have recently weighed in on this...

President Trump pressed the newly elected Ukrainian president to open an investigation into a candidate challenging Trump in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. This is a stunning abuse of power; it also violates campaign finance law.  

A now-public whistleblower complaint details reports “from multiple U.S. Government officials that the...

Nearly 18 million of the 23 million Americans with felony convictions should be able to vote right now, if they just understood their rights. 

On National Voter Registration Day, Campaign Legal Center launched RecupereSuVoto.org, the Spanish language version of RestoreYourVote.org: an online toolkit to help citizens with past felony convictions...

On September 17, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a proposed ordinance to update the city’s matching funds program, a system of public financing that matches city residents’ campaign contributions to local candidates with public funds at a certain rate.

If the Board of Supervisors votes again next week to approve of the...