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Jones v. DeSantis

Updated
January 29, 2020
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

In 2018, Florida voters restored the right to vote to individuals with felony convictions. The legislature then enacted a law conditioning rights restoration on payment of restitution, fines, and fees. CLC represents Floridians Bonnie Raysor, Diane Sherrill and Lee Hoffman in challenging the...

CLC to Present Oral Arguments Before Eleventh Circuit on Florida’s Modern-Day Poll Tax with Press Conference to Follow

Date
January 27, 2020
Case
Jones v. DeSantis
Issues
Voting Rights
Expedited hearing could determine voting rights eligibility for hundreds of thousands of Floridians in 2020 Presidential Primary Election.

Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum Completes Report on Expanding CLC’s Efforts to Confront Foreign Election Interference and Online Disinformation Threats

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is pleased to report that Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum, serving as a special advisor, has completed a project to provide recommendations on ways that CLC can expand its efforts to confront foreign election interference and online disinformation threats to U.S. elections.

La...

Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum Completes Report on Expanding CLC’s Efforts to Confront Foreign Election Interference and Online Disinformation Threats

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is pleased to report that Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum, serving as a special advisor, has completed a project to provide recommendations on ways that CLC can expand its efforts to confront foreign election interference and online disinformation threats to U.S. elections.

La...

Campaign Legal Center and Vote.org Join Forces to Educate People with Past Felony Convictions About Their Voting Rights

Date
January 21, 2020
Case
Restore Your Vote: Felony Rights Restoration
Issues
Voting Rights
CLC will partner with Vote.org to reach millions of Americans with past felony convictions by increasing their access to information about their voting eligibility – in time for 2020 presidential primary voter registration deadlines.

Florida Supreme Court Advisory Opinion Has No Impact on Federal Voting Rights Case Over Fines and Fees

Date
January 16, 2020
Case
Jones v. DeSantis
Issues
Voting Rights
The decision today by the Florida Supreme Court changes nothing in the ongoing federal lawsuit. We will continue to fight to ensure that people with felony convictions are not denied the right to vote based on their inability to pay.

Coalition Urges White House, Senate to Restore FEC Quorum with Commissioners Committed to Enforcing Anti-Corruption Laws

Date
January 13, 2020
Issues
Campaign Finance
A coalition of good-government groups led by CLC sent a letter calling on the President and U.S. Senate to restore the Federal Election Commission (FEC) voting quorum – but countering a call from private attorneys to confirm a “full slate” of six new FEC commissioners who would continue the FEC’s...

CLC Urges Court to Broaden Relief to All Florida Voters with Financial Hardship Before Presidential Primary Election

Date
October 25, 2019
Case
Jones v. DeSantis
Issues
Voting Rights
CLC filed a brief in federal court requesting that the court extend this relief to all Floridians who are otherwise eligible but are denied the right to vote solely because of their inability to pay.

CLC Urges 11th Circuit to Affirm Ruling in Florida Voting Case: ‘The Right to Vote Cannot Be Denied on Basis of Wealth’

Date
January 10, 2020
Case
Jones v. DeSantis
Issues
Voting Rights
The appeals court must affirm this ruling and send a clear message to Florida that wealth based discrimination in voting is unjust. Hundreds of thousands of peoples’ rights hang in the balance.

Fair Fight Action, Campaign Legal Center File Emergency Motion to Stop Georgia From Massive Voter Purge

Date
December 16, 2019
Case
Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger
Issues
Voting Rights
Today, Fair Fight Action and CLC filed an emergency motion in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger

Updated
December 17, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

A coalition of civil rights groups and religious organizations are challenging numerous deficiencies in Georgia’s electoral system that impose serious burdens on the right to vote for eligible Georgians. These obstacles particularly impact Georgia’s residents of color, severely limiting Georgia’s...

Tommy Ray Mays II, et al. v. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose

Updated
November 6, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

In Ohio, eligible voters who are arrested in the days leading up to the Election are being unconstitutionally denied their fundamental right to vote because the state excludes them from its emergency absentee ballot procedure.  Ohio’s disenfranchisement of these qualified electors violates the First...

Assisting Voters in Jail

Updated
November 1, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

About 750,000 people are incarcerated in jails across the United States every day, most of whom retain their right to vote. Casting a ballot, though, can be impossible for these eligible voters simply because they are incarcerated. CLC has launched a program to fight jail-based disenfranchisement...

Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda v. Raffensberger

Updated
October 11, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Civil rights groups are challenging Georgia’s restrictive voter registration law requiring voter data to “exactly match” data stored in the state drivers services’ database or the Social Security database. Georgia’s use of this “exact match” protocol disproportionately and negatively impacts the...

Thompson v. Alabama

Updated
December 3, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC represents individuals in Alabama who are U.S. citizens with past felony convictions, seeking the right to vote. Some are unable to vote because their convictions are considered "disqualifying" under Alabama's law, and others because they cannot afford to pay their court fees to restore their...

CLC and Voters Not Politicians Protect Michigan's IRC

Date
November 25, 2019
Case
Daunt v. Benson
Issues
Redistricting
In a decision yesterday, a judge denied plaintiffs’ motions filed by the Michigan Republican Party and special interests seeking to block Michigan’s voter-initiated Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Inspector General Investigating Ethical Misconduct by Newly Confirmed Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, Following CLC Complaint

Date
April 15, 2019
Case
Holding the Interior Department Accountable for Ethics Violations
Issues
Ethics
Today’s news confirms that Bernhardt’s conduct raises serious ethical questions, including whether he has exploited his power to advance the interests of the lobbying groups that used to pay his salary, potentially at the expense of the public.

Complaint: Acting Secretary Bernhardt Continued to Effectively Lobby for Client While Leading Government Agency

Date
February 28, 2019
Case
Holding the Interior Department Accountable for Ethics Violations
Issues
Ethics
Bernhardt’s behavior fits pattern of disregard for ethical norms across government agency tasked with managing the country’s natural resources.

Holding the Interior Department Accountable for Ethics Violations

Updated
November 20, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Ethics

Violations of ethics obligations by officials across the Interior Department have raised serious questions about whether top agency officials are working to benefit the public, or to benefit the wealthy special interests that used to fund their paychecks. CLC is working to hold Interior officials...

Thompson v. Hebdon

Updated
November 19, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

Thompson v. Hebdon is a First Amendment challenge to Alaska’s campaign finance law, including its contribution limits for state legislative candidates and its limit on contributions from out-of-state donors. CLC filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Ninth Circuit Court.

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