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Today, a broad range of reform, conservative and taxpayer organizations joined with scholars to urge House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to strengthen the House ethics process. The National Taxpayers Union, Taxpayers for Common Sense and Judicial Watch...
Today, a diverse coalition of congressional scholars and watchdog groups urged House Leaders from both Parties to publicly commit to the continuation of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) for the 114th Congress and to do so well in advance of the coming elections. The letter to Speaker John...
Yesterday in Baca v. Berry, Campaign Legal Center attorneys, along with attorneys at Jenner & Block, filed a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit responding to the City of Albuquerque’s efforts to obtain financial sanctions against four of its own citizens and their...
On February 17, 2015, in Dickson v. Rucho, Campaign Legal Center Executive Director J. Gerald Hebert joined with a dozen other nationally recognized election law professors in a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to accept a case and overturn a state supreme court ruling upholding North Carolina’s...
Earlier today, Judge Terry P. Lewis of the Second Judicial Circuit Court of Florida found that the Florida Legislature violated the state constitution when it redrew its congressional boundaries. Voters in Florida overwhelmingly supported amending the Florida Constitution in 2012 to bar the...
The House Ethics Committee has eliminated the requirement for House Members to disclose their privately financed travel on their financial disclosure forms, according to National Journal. The Committee made this change without any public announcement whatsoever, and when it was discovered yesterday...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center and Public Citizen urged the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to make its process of ethics investigations more transparent and more accountable. In a letter to Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Ranking Member Johnny Isakson (R-GA), the groups urged the...
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...
Today’s decision is a huge setback for civil rights in our nation. It is citizens, specifically the nation’s minorities, who will suffer as a result the votes of 5 Supreme Court Justices. The Roberts Court proved again that it will not be deterred by Supreme Court precedent, the realities on the...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center urged Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) and Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) to resign from Congress or at the very least recuse themselves from all official matters related to the issues of energy or the environment and broader matters like the “fiscal cliff” due to conflicts of...
Groups of various political persuasions joined together today calling upon House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to reauthorize and appoint new board members to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), and for President Barack Obama finally to step up to...
The Campaign Legal Center today joined Democracy 21 in sending a letter to the IRS questioning why the agency’s lengthy list of priorities for the coming year does not include any reference to addressing the widespread abuse of privileged 501(c)(4) tax status by organizations that spent hundreds of...
Today’s nominations are an encouraging sign from an Administration that has allowed a long-dysfunctional FEC to sink to a new and disgraceful low. Over the last four years the Administration had offered only a single nominee as the terms of every sitting commissioner expired and the Commission...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center submitted comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rebutting a series of gross mischaracterizations of law made by two major trade associations seeking to avoid disclosure of their donors whose money is used for political activities. In their...
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling upholding FEC rules governing donor disclosure in The Real Truth About Obama (RTAO) v. FEC. The suit specifically challenged the “subpart (b)” definition of “expressly advocating” (11 C.F.R. § 100.22(b)), as...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) seeking an investigation of Rep. Edolphus Towns concerning allegations that he illegally converted campaign funds to personal use. Media reports have indicated that the Congressman’s wife, Gwen Towns...
Majority Leader Reid's decision to have the Senate pass the House version of the STOCK Act is disappointing and snatches away a critical opportunity to strengthen ethics laws for public officials and bring some oversight to those who mine the halls of Congress for “political intelligence” investors...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center and other reform groups urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to insist on a STOCK Act conference to restore key anti-corruption provisions to the legislation that were stripped out of the House version.
“Claims by House Leaders that they had passed a...
In three separate letters today, the Campaign Legal Center and other reform groups urged the House pass the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge” (STOCK) Act, banning congressional insider trading, and emphasized the importance of retaining anti-public corruption measures from the Senate...
“Last night’s Senate passage of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act represents a strong step forward on several important ethical issues. Senators who voted for passage are to be commended. It is now up to the House leadership to ensure that the legislation is not watered down...