A court of appeals wrote an opinion this week rejecting a legal challenge brought by the Libertarian National Committee on contributions to political parties.
DOJ announced the indictment of U.S. entertainer and businessman Pras Michel and Malaysian financier Jho Low on charges of conspiracy and fraud, involving a scheme to make and conceal foreign campaign contributions.
Every Voice and the Win/Win Network found that 84% of contributors in Seattle’s 2017 election were first-time donors to city campaigns, and that 71% of these new donors used Democracy Vouchers.
In the years since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision paved the way for super PACs, politicians have found new ways to work closely with those supposedly independent groups.
In May 2019, CLC hosted "Foreign Interference in Our Elections: What We Really Learned From Mueller's Report," a conversation highlighting the alarming new details about the extent to which Russia worked to confuse, divide and infiltrate our democracy months before the 2016 election.
A group called the Presidential Coalition is capitalizing on its leader's ties to the President and misleading donors about where their money is going.
While Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s recently-released report on 2016 election interference and coordination did not establish coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, it highlights significant flaws in our campaign finance laws.
Campaign Legal Center is defending the First Amendment rights of Maryland voters to have direct and easy access to information about who is seeking to influence their decisions at the ballot box.
The full Mueller report shows the extent to which Russia conducted an organized campaign of information warfare against America with the goal of spreading chaos and distrust in our elections.
In New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham signed into law a set of reforms that will help ensure voters in the state know who is spending money to influence elections.
This is a problem of Citizens United’s making. That Supreme Court decision opened the door to corporate political spending and paved the way for super PACs and dark money groups.
SB 1107 paved the way for California’s state and local governments to establish public financing programs to support candidates running in state and local elections.
The FEC fined U.S. Senator Ted Cruz $35,000 for inaccurately reporting the source of campaign loans totaling $1,064,000, a violation of federal law, stemming from a complaint filed by CLC and Democracy 21 in 2016.
CLC strongly supports HR 1 and the comprehensive effort to make our democracy more accessible, transparent and responsive to the citizens of our great nation.
One of the top-spending “dark money” groups in the 2018 elections, reported approximately $46 million in independent expenditures to the FEC in 2018, while keeping its donors hidden from the public.
CLC filed two complaints with the FEC alleging that two former members of Congress illegally used leftover campaign contributions for personal uses, like a trip to Disney World and payments to family members.
A record fine was handed down by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) following an August 2016 complaint by Campaign Legal Center, a reminder that safeguarding our elections against foreign interference is in America’s vital national security interests.
