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On May 17, 2016, the Court issued an order granting the Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and denying the Defendant's motion for summary judgment. They again declared that the three statutory subsections were unconstitutional.
The Court filed an order and amended opinion on September 1, 2015 overturning the district court judgment.
Intervenor-Defendants Eli Publishing, L.C., F8, LLC, and Steven J. Lund cross-filed in a motion for summary judgment.
The Federal Elections Commission filed a memorandum supporting their own motion for summary judgment and opposing Campaign Legal Center's motion for summary judgment.
Campaign Legal Center filed a reply memorandum in support of their own motion for summary judgment and in opposition to the defendant's cross-motions for summary judgment.
CLC filed a brief in CLC v. FEC requesting a summary judgment declaring that the FEC must act on CLC's straw donor complaint.
Plaintiffs' reply memorandum in support of their motion for summary judgment and memorandum in opposition to defendants' cross-motion for summary judgment.
The Plaintiffs' fourth amended original petition. Plaintiffs seek all appropriate relief to require public disclosure and to obtain judgment against the wrongdoers for twice the unlawful contributions and expenditures. Plaintiffs believe the Courts should uphold these disclosure laws as they have done before. Alternatively, Plaintiffs request the Courts to determine the issues once and for all so that an unequal political playing field concerning financial disclosure does bot persist.
Amicus brief by the Campaign Legal Center in support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment and in defense of Texas’ campaign finance laws. Amicus urges the Court to reject KSP’s baseless challenge to Texas’s campaign finance laws and to grant summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs Texas Democratic Party et al. (“TDP”) with respect to KSP’s counterclaim.
On September 4, 2019, CLC submitted the attached letter to the Government Audit & Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The letter urges the Committee to support a proposed ordinance that would increase both the rate of public-to-private matching funds in the city's public financing program and the total amount of public funding available to local candidates. CLC's letter highlights how New York City and other localities have successfully broadened citizens' participation in local elections through similar changes to their public financing programs.
CLC asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether former U.S. Representative Jeff Miller violated federal law’s revolving door ban at 18 U.S.C. § 207(f) by registering as a foreign agent of Qatar less than one year after leaving Congress.
CLC filed an FEC complaint alleging that WeBuildTheWall’s solicitation violated the federal prohibition on corporate facilitation of contributions to candidates. The WeBuildTheWall corporation solicited its email subscribers for contributions to the United States Senate campaign of Kris Kobach.
CLC submitted written comments to New Mexico's Secretary of State regarding a proposed rulemaking on campaign finance. Our comments include recommendations to help ensure the Secretary's final rule provides meaningful disclosure of independent expenditures and prevents the circumvention of contribution limits.
CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign committee, de Blasio 2020, and two other political committees affiliated with de Blasio violated the law. The complaint cites evidence showing that, by routing money through a federal committee and a state committee, de Blasio 2020 allowed a small number of wealthy donors to support de Blasio’s candidacy above legal contribution limits.
CLC sued the FEC after it deadlocked and dismissed CLC’s complaint alleging illegal coordination between Clinton’s campaign and the super PAC Correct the Record (CTR). CLC is suing the FEC to force it to hold CTR and the Campaign accountable for violating the laws designed to limit money’s influence...
On August 2nd, CLC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to challenge the FEC’s failure to require disclosure and enforce the law against a multi-million dollar scheme run by the super PAC Correct the Record to coordinate its expenditures with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign in violation of federal contribution limits and reporting requirements.
LLCs are growing vehicles for laundering dark money contributions into federal elections. Anonymous donors are giving contributions to super PACs through LLCs, and only the LLCs, not the actual donors, are being disclosed to the public by the super PACs. CLC and Democracy 21 filed a lawsuit in the...