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Election Watchdog Fines Senator Cruz for Failure to Report Loans Totaling Over $1 Million, in Violation of Federal Law

Date
March 15, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
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.

CLC Argues Landmark Gerrymandering Case before Supreme Court Today

Date
October 3, 2017
Case
Gill v. Whitford
Issues
Redistricting
CLC's statement on Gill v. Whitford on the day Paul Smith argued the partisan gerrymandering case at the Supreme Court.

BREAKING: Record Fines Imposed Totaling $940,000 for Foreign Interference in Presidential Election by Chinese Corporation

Date
March 11, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
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.

CLC’s Trevor Potter Applauds House for Passing HR 1

Date
March 8, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
Ethics
Voting Rights
Redistricting
This landmark bill would make our government more accessible, transparent, and responsive to citizens.

NEW FILM: NC Citizens Decry Human Impact of Gerrymandering

Date
March 7, 2019
Case
Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina
Issues
Redistricting
In a new film release, CLC goes to North Carolina, ground zero in today’s fight over gerrymandering, to tell the stories of people impacted by the extreme partisan bias of the state’s electoral maps.

North Carolina’s Partisan Gerrymandering Plaintiffs File Final Brief with U.S. Supreme Court Ahead of Oral Arguments Later This Month

Date
March 4, 2019
Case
Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina
Issues
Redistricting
It is time for the U.S. Supreme Court to act. They have a golden opportunity to enforce the Constitution in a manner that will rein in partisan gerrymandering – done by both parties – and create ground rules that safeguard the fundamental right of all Americans to have their vote count.

NRA Used Shell Company to Unlawfully Coordinate With Four U.S. Senate Candidates, Complaint Alleges

Date
July 16, 2018
Case
Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA
Issues
Campaign Finance
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.

CLC, Giffords Call on FEC to Investigate NRA Coordination with Rosendale Campaign

Date
September 17, 2018
Case
Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA
Issues
Campaign Finance
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.

CLC Flags NRA Coordination with Missouri Senate Campaign

Date
October 23, 2018
Case
Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA
Issues
Campaign Finance
CLC uncovered evidence that the NRA routed nearly $1 million through shell corporations to unlawfully coordinate with the Hawley for Senate campaign in Missouri.

CLC and Giffords Law Center Flag Overwhelming Evidence of Illegal Coordination of Millions in Spending Between NRA, Trump Campaign

Date
December 7, 2018
Case
Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA
Issues
Campaign Finance
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.

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Montana Case, Keeping Disclosure Laws in Place

Date
February 19, 2019
Case
Montanans for Community Development v. Mangan
Issues
Campaign Finance
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.

New Bipartisan Poll Shows Support for Supreme Court to Establish Clear Rules for Gerrymandering

Date
January 28, 2019
Case
Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina
Lamone v. Benisek
Gill v. Whitford
Movement to Establish Citizen-Led Redistricting Commissions in the States
Issues
Redistricting
Nearly three-quarters of voters support the U.S. Supreme Court establishing clear rules for when gerrymandering violates the Constitution, with broad support extending across partisan and racial lines.

U.S. Census Bureau Should Change How it Counts Incarcerated Individuals in the 2020 Census

Date
July 28, 2016
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

The Campaign Legal Center and the Voting Rights Institute Submit Comments to the Bureau to Protect Voting Power of Minority Communities

WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center filed comments urging the U.S. Census Bureau to change its proposed rule on how it plans to count incarcerated prisoners...

Make Democracy Count: The Harmful Impact of Partisan Gerrymandering on Voters and Our Democracy

Date
August 10, 2016
Case
Gill v. Whitford
Issues
Redistricting

CLC Releases New Report Proposing a Key Solution for Partisan Gerrymandering and Achieving Fair Elections 

WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center, which is litigating the landmark case Whitford v. Gill to end partisan gerrymandering, today released a report, Make Democracy Count: Ending Partisan...

Responding to Campaign Legal Center letter, Office of Congressional Ethics finds reason to believe Rep. Roger Williams violated House ethics rules

Date
August 12, 2016
Issues
Ethics

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...

Supreme Court Should Reject New Standard for Racial Gerrymandering Cases

Date
September 14, 2016
Case
Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections
Issues
Redistricting

CLC Files Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Virginia racial gerrymandering case

The Campaign Legal Center today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections, a case of critical importance for the future of racial...

CLC's Statement on DOJ Decision Not to Retry Bob McDonnell on Corruption Charges

Date
September 8, 2016
Case
McDonnell v. United States
Issues
Campaign Finance
Gov. Bob McDonnell clearly abused his office, but will face no penalty.

Groups Seek Summary Judgment Against FEC for Dismissal of Crossroads GPS Complaint

Date
July 30, 2014
Case
Public Citizen v. FEC
Issues
Campaign Finance

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...

Testimony: HR 1 Advances the Right of Every Citizen to a Government Responsive and Accountable to Voters

Date
January 29, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
Ethics
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.

Bipartisan Bill Re-Introduced to Increase Transparency and Accountability of Political Spending

Date
January 18, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
Ethics
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.