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

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.

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. 

Republicans and Democrats alike support the Supreme Court stepping in to curb partisan gerrymandering. 

The Supreme Court provided a clear roadmap of what it expects to see presented in district court before it sets a legal standard for partisan gerrymandering nationwide.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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