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All Eyes Turn to North Carolina, as SCOTUS Considers Whether to Hear Partisan Gerrymandering Case

June 21, 2018
Case
Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina
Issues
Redistricting

The Supreme Court justices could decide Monday, June 25 whether to hear the North Carolina case or send it back to a lower court. 

Bipartisan House Bill Introduced to Combat Foreign Interference

June 29, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance

This week, a bipartisan group of Members of Congress introduced the REFUSE Act to close the loopholes that foreign actors have used to secretly influence U.S. democracy. CLC advised the House offices on the text of the bill.

CLC Played Important Role in Exposing Scott Pruitt’s Misconduct While at EPA

July 6, 2018
Issues
Ethics

After months of mounting ethics scandals and apparent legal violations that have spurred numerous agency investigations, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday.

Progress in the Courts Protected Voters from Texas’s Original Discriminatory Voter ID Law

April 27, 2018
Case
Veasey v. Abbott
Issues
Voting Rights

On April 27, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released a decision on the longstanding legal challenge to Texas’s voter ID law, Veasey v. Abbott.

VA Proposes Flawed Waiver System to Address Conflicts of Interest

July 20, 2018
Issues
Ethics

In a letter to the VA Walter Shaub, CLC’s senior director, ethics, explains why the department's most recent attempt to revamp the conflict of interest rule is fatally flawed.

New IRS Policy Helps Foreign Influence and Dark Money Stay in the Dark

July 20, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance

The IRS’s new policy will make laundering foreign money through dark-money groups simpler and our electoral system more susceptible to abuse.

LLCs: The Perfect Mechanism to Funnel Secret (and Perhaps Foreign) Money Into Elections

July 30, 2018
Case
CLC v. FEC (Straw Donors)
Issues
Campaign Finance

CLC has long pointed to the problem of shell corporations being used to evade disclosure laws. In some cases, this is a way that foreign actors, who are not permitted to engage in political activity in the U.S., are able to make contributions to super PACs supporting campaigns.

Sore Losers: Why Hasn't the FEC Appealed a Case in Over a Decade?

July 31, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance

This summer marks the ten-year anniversary of the last time a federal circuit court decided a case appealed by the FEC.

The Kid Gloves Are Off: Florida Early Voting Case Could Provide New Pathway to Tackling Barriers to Student Voting

August 3, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

On July 24, 2018, students won a major victory for themselves in securing equal access to the right to vote.

Census Citizenship Question Would Distort Our Representative Democracy

August 9, 2018
Issues
Redistricting

Adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census will hinder its ability to provide an accurate snapshot of our nation’s population.

Cockrum v. Trump (DDC)

Updated
December 11, 2017
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting Rights

Three politically active Americans are suing the Donald Trump campaign and political consultant Roger Stone for violating their privacy and civil rights in the 2016 presidential election. They allege that the Trump campaign played a role in their private information being distributed worldwide after...

Meet Our 2018 Summer Law Interns!

May 31, 2018

CLC v. DOJ (Pence-Kobach Commission)

Updated
April 5, 2018
Status
Active

CLC is suing to obtain the redacted names from the FOIA over the Pence-Kobach Commission.

Lewis v. Alabama

Updated
January 24, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fun in filing a brief in support of the plaintiff, arguing that protections of the Voting Rights Act override state sovereignty in order to protect voters and hold state officials accountable for racially discriminatory election laws.

Veasey v. Abbott

Updated
April 27, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

In 2011, the Texas legislature enacted Senate Bill 14, the nation’s strict voter photo ID law that left more than a half a million eligible voters without access to the democratic process. After years of litigation, Texas changed its law.

CLC v. Department of Justice

Updated
March 27, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Campaign Finance

CLC sought to compel DOJ to disclose records on how DOJ reached its conclusion to rescind administration policy to phase-out private prison contracts and whether GEO Group's contributions to a Trump super PAC played a role in the decision. The case has been settled.

LULAC v. Reagan

Updated
June 5, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC filed a lawsuit with co-counsel in LULAC v. Reagan, a complaint about Arizona's burdensome dual registration system for voters.

Vesilind v. Virginia State Board of Elections

Updated
June 5, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

In 2015, a group of individual voters in Virginia challenged the 2011 Virginia General Assembly maps as violating the state constitution, arguing that the map drawers subordinated compactness and prioritized partisan criteria in order to achieve self-interested political objectives.

League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Updated
March 26, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a challenge to the state’s 2011 congressional district map. The challengers argue that the map is an extreme partisan gerrymander, in violation of the Pennsylvania Constitution’s Free Expression and Association Clauses, as...

Corman v. Torres

Updated
March 19, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Redistricting

Corman v. Torres is a lawsuit in federal court that attempts to prevent Pennsylvania elections officials from implementing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision that struck down the state’s extreme partisan gerrymander.

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