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Alabama Voters Went to the Polls in December Without Knowing Source of Millions in Spending by Mysterious Democratic Super PAC Highway 31

Date
March 5, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance

WASHINGTON – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Highway 31, a super PAC that backed Democratic candidate Doug Jones in Alabama’s December 2017 U.S. Senate special election, violated campaign finance law by cooking up a...

President Trump Should Act on OSC Recommendation to Take Disciplinary Action Against Kellyanne Conway

Date
March 6, 2018
Case
Enforcing the Hatch Act
Issues
Ethics

Shaub: “The White House cannot continue to have one standard for the federal workforce generally and a lower standard for appointees who are close to this President.”

Today, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) found that Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act by using...

Mayor Bowser Signs Fair Elections Act to Give Voice to Small Donors in District Campaigns

Date
March 13, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Fair Elections Act, a voluntary system that will allow qualified candidates an initial grant followed by matching funds on small donations in District elections.

Complaint: Mississippi Senate Candidate Chris McDaniel Engaged in Brazen Coordination with Mercer-Backed Super PAC ‘Remember Mississippi’

Date
March 26, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance

WASHINGTON – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Remember Mississippi, a super PAC funded by national GOP megadonors Robert Mercer and Richard Uihlein, illegally made contributions to Mississippi U.S. Senate candidate Chris...

CLC President Trevor Potter on 60 Minutes: Hush Money to Stormy Daniels Creates “Enormous” Legal Problems for Trump’s Campaign and Lawyer

March 26, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance
Voting Rights

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.

Addition of Citizenship Question Compromises the Fairness and Accuracy of Census

Date
March 27, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights
CLC opposes the citizenship question on the U.S. census.

CLC Complaint Alleges John Bolton Super PAC’s Connection to Cambridge Analytica Resulted in Campaign Finance Violations

Date
March 30, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance
CLC filed an FEC complaint alleging that the John Bolton Super PAC’s work with Cambridge Analytica resulted in unlawful coordinated communications during the 2014 election cycle. 

Americans for Job Security Has Failed to File Three Years’ Worth of Mandatory Tax Returns

Date
April 4, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance

Today, CLC and Issue One called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to enforce penalties against Americans for Job Security — one of the top spenders of political “dark money” in recent years — for failing to file three years’ worth of mandatory tax returns. For this, Americans for Job Security...

CLC President Trevor Potter Reaction to Mark Zuckerberg’s Support for Honest Ads Act

Date
April 6, 2018
Case
Disclosure Rules for Digital Political Spending
Issues
Campaign Finance

Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post that his company supports the Honest Ads Act, bipartisan legislation that would help to combat foreign interference in U.S. elections.

CLC President Trevor Potter, a former Republican Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, released...

Walter Shaub Reaction to Ethics Memo from EPA on Scott Pruitt Condo Rental

Date
April 4, 2018
Issues
Ethics

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) obtained a new ethics memo from the Environmental Protection Agency with additional insight on how Administrator Scott Pruitt identified what he considered to be comparable rentals.

“Putting aside the gift regulations, it is hard to understand why Pruitt thought it was...

First Empirical Research of Facebook Political Ads Demonstrates the Need for Legislative Solution that would Deter Foreign Interference in Elections

Date
April 16, 2018
Case
Disclosure Rules for Digital Political Spending
Issues
Campaign Finance

Research recommends solutions like Honest Ads Act, which would extend disclosure requirements to all major ad platforms, helping root out foreign interference

WASHINGTON – Today, CLC and Issue One, in conjunction with University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Young Mie Kim and her team, Project...

FEC will Crack Down on Zombie Campaigns after CLC Files Petition

Date
April 25, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance

WASHINGTON – Today, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) announced that the agency will begin reviewing campaign disclosure reports to determine whether former candidates and officeholders are illegally using leftover campaign money for personal purposes, after Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a...

Voters Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Agree That North Carolina Congressional Map is an Unconstitutional Partisan Gerrymander

Date
April 27, 2018
Case
Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina
Issues
Redistricting

WASHINGTON – Plaintiffs in North Carolina’s partisan gerrymandering challenge, League of Women Voters of North Carolina v. Rucho, filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court today asking the court to affirm the lower court’s ruling that found the entire state’s plan to be an unconstitutional partisan...

Despite Decision Today, Years of Litigation over Voter ID Law has Made Voting Easier for Texas Voters

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

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released a decision on Veasey v. Abbott, a legal challenge to Texas’ voter ID law. Campaign Legal Center (CLC) represents a group of plaintiffs who have challenged the law as burdening the fundamental right to vote.

Danielle Lang, senior...

President Trump’s New Claim of Reimbursing Michael Cohen for Hush Money Payment Strengthens Case For Campaign Finance Violations

Date
May 3, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance
Ethics

FEC must investigate this matter so future campaigns don’t feel empowered to ignore reporting requirements necessary for transparency

In televised interviews on Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Trump, asserted that Trump reimbursed Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen for the $130,000...

Walter Shaub Statement on Release of President Trump Disclosure Form

Date
May 16, 2018
Issues
Ethics
Walter Shaub, senior director, ethics at Campaign Legal Center (CLC) released the following statement: “The release of President Trump’s financial disclosure report today confirms that his debt to Michael Cohen should have been disclosed in last year’s report. It bears an annotation on the cover...

Maryland Steps Forward to Become National Leader in Transparency for Online Political Advertising

Date
May 29, 2018
Case
Disclosure Rules for Digital Political Spending
Issues
Campaign Finance

On Friday, Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland allowed the Online Electioneering Transparency and Accountability Act (OETA) to become law. The law will improve the disclosure of digital political advertising online. It will apply the same reporting standards applicable to political advertising on...

Is Ending Partisan Gerrymandering a Big Deal?

June 1, 2018
Case
Gill v. Whitford
Issues
Redistricting

Participation in Tuesday’s Elections in Alabama a ‘Beautiful Experience’ for First-Time Voter

June 14, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

Willie G., a 37-year resident of Birmingham, Alabama, voted for the first time this Tuesday and called it a beautiful experience and an opportunity to “feel like somebody.”

CLC Successfully Defends Legal Challenge to Seattle’s Innovative Public Financing System

June 14, 2018
Case
Elster v. City of Seattle
Issues
Campaign Finance

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

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