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Washington, DC – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Louisiana U.S. Congressional candidate Lance Harris violated the law by using his state campaign committee to fund a federal super PAC supporting his run for Congress and...
Washington, DC – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed new complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that six government contractors violated the ban on active federal contractors making political contributions.
Marathon Petroleum, Amedisys, Kirby Smith Machinery, Excel...
Today in Wagner v. FEC, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously rejected an effort to overturn the 70-year-old ban on political contributions from federal contractors to federal candidates, parties and other political committees. The Campaign Legal Center...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, together with more than a dozen government watchdog organizations, urged the Senate to oppose legislation that would block disclosure of campaign spending by government contractors. In a letter to the full Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental...
U.S. Senate: CLC Offers Possible Legislative Fixes to Citizens United at Request of Senate Committee
Today the Campaign Legal Center submitted the following letter and memo to Senate Rules Committee Chairman Charles Schumer (D-NY) offering a series of potential legislative fixes to repair some of the damage done by the U.S. Supreme Court in its recent ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21 and Public Citizen, filed an amici brief in Wagner v. FEC opposing an effort to overturn the 70-year-old ban on campaign contributions by federal contractors. The case is currently on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...
GEO’s $225,000 in contributions to pro-Trump super PAC violated 75-year old protection against companies buying contracts through political contributions
WASHINGTON – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) over its unlawful delay in...
CLC Lawsuit Demands DOJ Provide Documents Relating to Private Prison Company GEO and Trump Super PAC
While the FEC fails to enforce the law, private prison company reaps benefits of its illegal contribution to Trump super PAC
WASHINGTON – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a lawsuit demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) turn over documents relating to the private prison company...
Pay-to-Play on Full Display? Private Prison Contractor Reaps Benefits from Illegal Campaign Spending
In response to reports that the first contract for a new immigrant detention center under the Trump administration will be awarded to GEO Group – which gave $225,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC, in violation of federal law– Brendan Fischer, federal and FEC reform program director at the Campaign Legal...
FEC Must Investigate $225,000 in Donations from Private Prison Company GEO Group to Trump Super PAC, in Violation of Contractor Ban
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo Thursday reversing the previous administration’s plans to phase-out the use of private prisons. In 2016, the Campaign...
WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center filed a letter today with the Federal Election Commission providing additional evidence that private prison company GEO Group illegally contributed a total of $225,000 to the Donald Trump-affiliated super PAC Rebuilding America Now, in violation of the 75-year...
WASHINGTON – One day after the Obama administration announced its decision to phase out federal private prison contracts, the private prison company GEO Group made a $100,000 donation to the pro-Donald Trump super PAC Rebuilding America Now, in violation of the longstanding ban on government...