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Date
March 15, 2019
Issues
This decision affirms the fact that city officials in a position of public trust should work to ensure that public funds benefit the students and employees of their school districts.
Date
March 15, 2019
Issues
The FEC fined the Cruz fore Senate campaign $35,000 for inaccurately reporting the source of campaign loans totaling $1,064,000, stemming from a complaint filed by CLC and Democracy 21 in 2016.
Date
March 11, 2019
Issues
A record fine was handed down by the FEC after a complaint by CLC showed that a Chinese-owned corporation illegally contributed $1.3 million to a 2016 presidential campaign.
Date
March 8, 2019
This landmark bill would make our government more accessible, transparent, and responsive to citizens.
Date
July 16, 2018
Issues
Campaign finance law prohibits coordination between candidates and outside groups like the NRA. In order to preserve their independence, FEC rules limit how a vendor may work for both a candidate and an outside group supporting that candidate.
Date
September 17, 2018
Issues
An audio recording indicates that a top NRA official told a Montana Senate candidate that the NRA would be spending in the Montana race, described the content of the ads and the timing, and the candidate assented to that suggestion.
Date
October 23, 2018
Issues
CLC uncovered evidence that the NRA routed nearly $1 million through shell corporations to unlawfully coordinate with the Hawley for Senate campaign in Missouri.
Date
December 7, 2018
Issues
The NRA can legally make unlimited expenditures to support the Trump campaign only if the organizations are completely independent. But if the same people buying ads for the Trump campaign are also placing the NRA’s pro-Trump ads, then the NRA’s spending is not at all independent.
Date
February 19, 2019
Issues
Declining to hear this case protects the ability of state lawmakers across the country to use disclosure laws as a tool to promote transparency in elections.
Date
August 12, 2016
Issues
CLC Letter Against Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) Leads to Possible Investigation by the House Ethics Committee
WASHINGTON – Late yesterday, the House Ethics Committee revealed that the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) found “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) may have...
Date
September 8, 2016
Issues
Gov. Bob McDonnell clearly abused his office, but will face no penalty.
Date
July 30, 2014
Issues
Late yesterday, reform groups asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to declare unlawful the dismissal of a complaint against the secretive political spending group Crossroads Grassroots Political Strategies (GPS) by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The motion for summary...
Date
January 29, 2019
Issues
Today at 10am ET, the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on HR 1, For the People Act, a sweeping package of reforms that offers some of the most comprehensive advances our democracy has seen in decades.
Date
January 18, 2019
Issues
CLC’s new issue brief describes how PATA, which was re-introduced, would attend to pressing democracy issues like single-candidate super PACs and digital disclosure loopholes.
Date
January 14, 2019
Case
Issues
The U.S. Supreme Court decision to decline to hear this case protects the viability of contribution limits nationwide as a tool for state lawmakers to combat pay-to-play politics.
Date
January 4, 2019
Americans are entitled to a democracy that works for them, and having HR1 passed as the first order of business in the new Congress.
Date
December 13, 2018
Issues
Strengthening the law requiring independence of candidates from outside groups is critical to loosening the influence that megadonors who fund super PACs hold over candidates and officeholders.
Date
December 4, 2018
Issues
The Council of the District of Columbia voted in favor of the Campaign Finance Reform Amendment Act of 2018, a sweeping campaign finance reform bill that will reduce the disproportionate influence of money in D.C. politics.
Date
June 5, 2011
Issues
Today, the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) clearly outlining that it is illegal for federal officeholders and candidates to solicit unlimited contributions for Super PACs. The comments address Advisory Opinion Request (AOR) 2011-12...
Date
August 13, 2018
Issues
Secretary Ross’s vague and inconsistent filings raise questions about whether the financial interests of a wealthy cabinet secretary influenced administration policies affecting American companies.