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Ideological and interest group opponents of campaign finance regulation continue to flood the courts with cases challenging campaign finance laws at the federal, state and municipal levels. McCutcheon v. FEC, a challenge to the federal aggregate contribution limits, will be argued before the U.S...
On Friday, the Campaign Legal Center, Chicago Appleseed and the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform (ICPR) filed an amici brief supporting the state of Illinois’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging various state law contribution limits. The brief was filed in the U.S. District Court for the...
On May 14, 2014, a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated or narrowed multiple provisions of Wisconsin’s political disclosure law in Wisconsin Right to Life v. Deininger.
More specifically, the three-judge panel held that Wisconsin’s disclosure requirements could...
Today, Representative Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), joined by the Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21 and Public Citizen, filed a lawsuit today in federal district court in Washington, D.C challenging the IRS regulations that govern eligibility for tax-exempt status as a section 501(c)(4) “social...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), against Rick Santorum and campaign staffers for directing a donor to make a $1 million campaign contribution to a super PAC supporting Santorum’s 2012 presidential run. Federal...
Last night the Campaign Legal Center, joined by three Connecticut watchdog groups, filed an amici brief in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut urging the court to deny a request for preliminary injunction being sought by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) that would...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center joined with ten other reform groups to urge FEC Chair Ellen L. Weintraub not yield to political pressure from Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) to undermine the enforcement of the nation’s campaign finance laws.
Rep. Miller, Chairman of the House Administration Committee...
In a letter sent today to the Internal Revenue Service the Campaign Legal Center joined Democracy 21 to again urge the IRS to deny the application filed by Crossroads GPS for tax exempt status as a section 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization.
According to the letter from the watchdog groups:
...Yesterday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp sent a letter to the Justice Department stating that former IRS official Lois Lerner may have violated criminal statutes and asking the Department to act on the findings within the letter.
At the core of the letter is a charge that...
The Court today abandoned any pretense of respecting Supreme Court precedent or Congressional expertise on matters of campaign finance when it struck down longstanding federal limits on aggregate contributions to candidates, parties and PACs. To reach this decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, the Court...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) urging the Commission to conclude that the National Republican Congressional Committee...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center filed an amici brief in the U.S. Supreme Court defending the federal aggregate contribution limits and warning that invalidation of the limits would herald a return to the abuses of the “soft money” era that were outlawed by the McCain-Feingold Act and held...
In a letter sent today to the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition (KOC) and the McConnell Senate Committee ’14, Democracy 21, joined by the Campaign Legal Center, called on KOC to stop running an ad that violates the federal campaign finance laws.
The ad in question uses republished campaign footage...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, filed a complaint urging the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate possible illegal soft money solicitations for the Super PAC of Senator David Vitter (R-LA) in excess of federal contribution limits and from sources prohibited...
Late yesterday, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, filed comments in response to a Federal Election Commission (FEC) Advisory Opinion Request (AOR) 2013-09, which asks the agency to exceed its authority by declaring a statute unconstitutional and announcing that the agency will no...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center joined Democracy 21 and Americans for Campaign Reform in voicing strong objections to changes to the Federal Election Commission’s Enforcement Manual that have been proposed by Commissioners McGahn, Hunter and Petersen. The groups also object to the possibility that...
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has reached a conciliation agreement with the campaign committee of former Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) concerning allegations that he illegally converted campaign funds to personal use based on a complaint filed by the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) in 2012. As...
Late yesterday, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, filed comments with the Federal Election Commission urging the agency to reject a request by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) for permission to fund federal election activity with money raised outside federal contribution...
On March 7, the Delaware Attorney General filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware urging the Court to deny a motion for a preliminary injunction filed by the Plaintiff, Delaware Strong Families (DSF). The case, Delaware Strong Families v. Biden, involves a...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, urged the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate possible illegal in-kind contributions and coordination between Montana congressional candidate Ryan Zinke and the Super PAC he formed and that now supports his candidacy. The compla...