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Date
May 9, 2019
Issues
If candidates are not punished for working hand-in-hand with super PACs, campaigns will stretch the legal boundaries until there is no way to prevent the corruption of candidates beholden to big money.
Date
May 8, 2019
Issues
The Honest Ads Act is a useful bipartisan disclosure response to the foreign interference we witnessed in 2016, and would make it more difficult for foreign actors to target American voters.
Date
May 6, 2019
Issues
Despite telling donors that it would support conservative candidates with the funds raised, only three percent of The Presidential Coalition’s 2017 and 2018 spending went towards the direct political activity, according to a CLC research report.
Date
April 30, 2019
Issues
Although Special Counsel Robert Mueller declined to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump Jr., Mueller provided a roadmap by which the FEC could pursue civil penalties.
Date
April 26, 2019
Issues
AUSTIN, TX – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) reached a final settlement agreement with the state of Texas on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and Julie Hilberg, ending Secretary of State David Whitley’s flawed voter purge program, which targeted naturalized citizens...
Date
April 24, 2019
Issues
The NRA’s complicated scheme had the effect of evading campaign contribution limits and shielding millions of dollars of political spending – including up to $25 million coordinated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign – from public scrutiny.
Date
April 18, 2019
Issues
Details uncovered in the investigation lay bare the extent to which Russia conducted an organized campaign of information warfare against America with the goal of spreading chaos and distrust in our elections.
Date
April 15, 2019
Issues
Proposed new rules are confusing and vague and would deter groups from helping others register to vote through harsh criminal and civil penalties.
Date
September 12, 2017
Issues
WASHINGTON – Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) learned through a response to a FOIA Request from Feb. 15, 2017 that an employee with the Heritage Foundation pushed back on naming a single Democrat to the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity.
The employee wrote personally to Attorney...
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
February 27, 2019
Issues
Court condemns Texas ‘threatening correspondence’ and orders them to discontinue voter purge program.
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 26, 2019
Issues
All Texas counties should refrain from further action until a broad ruling is made on our lawsuit. The court should step in and protect the rights of all Texas citizens.
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
July 20, 2016
Case
Issues
CLC Statement on 5th Circuit’s Ruling in Texas Voter ID Case
NEW ORLEANS, LA – A full panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in a 9 - 6 decision that Texas’ discriminatory voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and cannot be enforced as is in the upcoming presidential...