Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission: Supreme Court OpinionFrom the period between June 24, 2015 and July 20, 2015.

From the period between July 21, 2015 and August 7, 2015.

From the period between August 7, 2015 and October 1, 2015.

On October 8, 2015, the Campaign Legal Center hosted a discussion on Capitol Hill on “Finding Common Ground on Money-in-Politics” featuring John Pudner, Tea Party strategist and Executive Director of Take Back Our Republic, Jay Cost, author and columnist for The Weekly Standard, Norman Ornstein...

Opponents of the disclosure of political spending have been playing fast and loose with the truth. This FAQ, prepared by CLC for Issue One, sorts the myths from the facts when it comes to the laws and regulation of ‘dark money’ groups and their spending in federal elections.

A remarkable eighty percent of Americans – both Republicans and Democrats -- believe that the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United should be overturned. Much of the public outrage and energy around undoing the damage done by the Court’s campaign finance jurisprudence has focused on...

Unethical lawyers and consultants have made a cottage industry out of forming PACs that send urgent solicitations asking for small donations,  ripping off well-intentioned activists to line their own pockets. Now, they are about to get richer. 

Almost nine months later, the public still has not seen any documents that show how the Department of Justice (DOJ) reached its decision to change course on its private prison policy. But private prison giant GEO Group’s history of large, illegal donations to a pro-Trump super PAC offers a very...

Consistent with the initial signs of success, the numbers continue to show that after instituting the city's public financing program, 2017 donors in Seattle were more numerous, more diverse, and younger than ever before. 

Viewers learned that the heart of the Stormy Daniels story is, in fact, an apparent violation of campaign finance law. Candidates and political operatives from both parties increasingly push the legal envelope with the expectation that the FEC won’t penalize them.

By design, Seattle’s funding program gives regular voters a voice in city government.

The momentum from these measures stems in large part from the growing resentment from Americans that candidates rely on a tiny segment to bankroll their campaigns, and in turn, curry favor and influence. 

CLC's Walter Shaub provides policy recommendations to strengthen the government ethics program. 

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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