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

August 18, 2017
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.” Willie, age 69, works as a roofer and painter, and served a 10-year sentence in the state penitentiary from 1981-1991 on...

Americans Left in the Dark Over Reasons Behind Private Prison Policy Reversal

December 8, 2017
Case
CLC v. Department of Justice
Private Prison Company GEO Group's Pay-to-Play
Issues
Campaign Finance

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...

In Just One Election Cycle, Vouchers Have Changed Campaign Finance in the City of Seattle

January 23, 2018
Case
Elster v. City of Seattle
Issues
Campaign Finance

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. 

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.

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.

Citizens barred from the polls: The negative impact of strict photo voter ID in Texas

June 15, 2018
Case
Veasey v. Abbott
Issues
Voting Rights

Because of the burdensome requirements of strict photo voter ID in Texas, the law disproportionately disenfranchises minority voters, particularly African Americans and Latinos. Here are some of their stories.

Public Financing in the Nation’s Capital: Could Your City Be Next? 

June 15, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance

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. 

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Ohio to Purge its Citizens From the Rolls

June 11, 2018
Case
Husted v. Randolph Institute
Issues
Voting Rights

In a 5-4 ruling in Husted v. APRI, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Ohio voter purge practice that removes infrequent voters from the registration rolls.

13 Ways to Improve Government Ethics

November 9, 2017
Issues
Ethics

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

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.

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