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District Court Rejects Challenge to Disclosure Provisions Upheld by Supreme Court in Citizens United
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a challenge to the federal “electioneering communications” disclosure provisions in Independence Institute v. Federal Election Commission (FEC). Last month, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21 and Public Citizen...
PHOENIX – Debbie Lesko, a congressional candidate for Arizona’s eighth district, illegally funneled $50,000 from her state campaign fund to a super PAC supporting her congressional race, according to a complaint Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
The...
WASHINGTON – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Highway 31, a super PAC that backed Democratic candidate Doug Jones in Alabama’s December 2017 U.S. Senate special election, violated campaign finance law by cooking up a...
Shaub: “The White House cannot continue to have one standard for the federal workforce generally and a lower standard for appointees who are close to this President.”
Today, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) found that Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act by using...
WASHINGTON – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Remember Mississippi, a super PAC funded by national GOP megadonors Robert Mercer and Richard Uihlein, illegally made contributions to Mississippi U.S. Senate candidate Chris...
Today, CLC and Issue One called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to enforce penalties against Americans for Job Security — one of the top spenders of political “dark money” in recent years — for failing to file three years’ worth of mandatory tax returns. For this, Americans for Job Security...
Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post that his company supports the Honest Ads Act, bipartisan legislation that would help to combat foreign interference in U.S. elections.
CLC President Trevor Potter, a former Republican Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, released...
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) obtained a new ethics memo from the Environmental Protection Agency with additional insight on how Administrator Scott Pruitt identified what he considered to be comparable rentals.
“Putting aside the gift regulations, it is hard to understand why Pruitt thought it was...
Research recommends solutions like Honest Ads Act, which would extend disclosure requirements to all major ad platforms, helping root out foreign interference
WASHINGTON – Today, CLC and Issue One, in conjunction with University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Young Mie Kim and her team, Project...
WASHINGTON – Today, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) announced that the agency will begin reviewing campaign disclosure reports to determine whether former candidates and officeholders are illegally using leftover campaign money for personal purposes, after Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a...
FEC must investigate this matter so future campaigns don’t feel empowered to ignore reporting requirements necessary for transparency
In televised interviews on Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Trump, asserted that Trump reimbursed Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen for the $130,000...
On Friday, Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland allowed the Online Electioneering Transparency and Accountability Act (OETA) to become law. The law will improve the disclosure of digital political advertising online. It will apply the same reporting standards applicable to political advertising on...