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Following Citizens United, ideological and interest group opponents of campaign finance regulation have continued to flood the courts with cases challenging campaign finance laws at the federal, state and municipal levels. The number of lawsuits across the country and the number well-funded groups...
In a letter sent today to members of the House Administration Committee, reform groups called on the Committee to oppose legislation to repeal the presidential public financing system and the financing system for conventions. The letter also urged the Committee to oppose proposed legislation to...
The Campaign Legal Center joined Democracy 21 today in urging the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, not to undermine the IRS’s ability to enforce existing tax laws as they seek to address the agency’s...
In a letter sent today to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), Democracy 21, joined by the Campaign Legal Center, forwarded fifteen letters that the watchdog groups had sent to the IRS beginning in October 2010 urging IRS action against groups improperly claiming 501(c)(4)...
Today, reform groups called on Congress to investigate and address both of the scandals at the IRS in order to prevent the same abuses from occurring in the future. The letter, sent to the full House and Senate, stressed the need to investigate the improper targeting of conservative groups and also...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center expressed strong support for Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-MT) and Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act(S. 375), to require electronic filing of campaign finance disclosure reports by Senate candidates, as House and Presidential candidates have...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center joined with other reform groups in urging both houses of Congress to pass campaign finance disclosure legislation this year. The letter reminds Congress that more than $300 million in secret contributions were spent in presidential and congressional races in 2012...
The Campaign Legal Center joined with other reform groups yesterday in sharply criticizing President Obama’s many failures and broken promises on the campaign finance reform front and urging him to live up to his commitments in his second term. In the letter, the groups reminded the President of...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, filed comments with the Federal Election Commission urging the agency not to further weaken its already ineffective enforcement of campaign finance laws. In response to a commission notice requesting comment as to whether the FEC is...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center joined Democracy 21 in asking President Obama whether his involvement with Organizing for Action (OFA) is consistent with the statutory ban on the solicitation of gifts by the President and executive branch officials. In a letter, citing numerous media accounts of...
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 Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the century-old federal ban on corporate contributions to candidates and political parties in U.S. v Danielczyk. Despite a clearly activist and deregulatory bent on campaign finance matters under Chief Justice John Roberts, the High Court...
The rush of litigation challenging campaign finance and disclosure laws continues unabated more than two years after the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision. In addition to these challenges, the upcoming election has spurred a new wave of litigation over state voter purges and...
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a motion for preliminary injunction in a constitutional challenge to Illinois contribution limits inIllinois Liberty PAC (ILP) v. Madigan. Specifically, ILP challenged the contribution limits of $50,000 per election from...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, filed comments criticizing the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for scheduling consideration of Advisory Opinion Request (AOR) 2012-32 at a meeting tomorrow, before the statutorily-required 10-day public comment period ends Friday...
Today, a three-judge panel rejected the Republican National Committee’s challenge to the federal aggregate contribution limits in McCutcheon v. FEC. In so holding, the court highlighted an argument in the amici brief filed by the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, that the challenge, if...
The Campaign Legal Center today joined Democracy 21 in sending a letter to the IRS further documenting that Crossroads GPS is a campaign operation and thus not entitled to tax-exempt status as a section 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization. The letter attached transcripts of ads run by...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to defend Hawaii’s contractor contribution ban and disclosure regulations in Yamada v. Weaver. Plaintiff-Appellant A-1 A-Lectrician, Inc. (A-1), a government contractor, seeks to overturn...
Today, a federal court in Illinois accepted an amici brief by the Campaign Legal Center, Chicago Appleseed and the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform defending state contribution limits over the objections of Illinois Liberty PAC, the plaintiff in the case. The Legal Center had originally...
Today’s decision by the DC Court of Appeals is disappointing in that it will allow the continuing wholesale evasion of disclosure laws passed by Congress and upheld by the courts. At issue in this case is an FEC regulation that resulted in an almost complete failure by groups making “electioneering...