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Date
September 14, 2016
Issues
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...
Date
September 8, 2016
Issues
Gov. Bob McDonnell clearly abused his office, but will face no penalty.
Date
July 30, 2014
Issues
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...
Date
February 1, 2019
Issues
Texas officials are violating U.S. Constitution by unlawfully discriminating against and intimidating eligible voters.
Date
January 29, 2019
Issues
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.
Date
January 24, 2019
Issues
CLC's new Race in Politics Catalog is a collection of political communications, campaign materials and comments that make racial appeals to voters. Compiled over the 2017-2018 election cycle, the Catalog gathers – in one place for the first time – many different types of race-based appeals from...
Date
January 18, 2019
Issues
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.
Date
January 15, 2019
Issues
While the fight is not over, this decision is a sigh of relief for people in the country that could have been adversely affected by the lack of representation caused by being undercounted in the Census.
Date
January 14, 2019
Case
Issues
The U.S. Supreme Court decision to decline to hear this case protects the viability of contribution limits nationwide as a tool for state lawmakers to combat pay-to-play politics.
Date
January 4, 2019
Issues
The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear arguments in a challenge to North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map, which is one of the most egregious partisan gerrymanders in American history. It will also hear the Maryland challenge, in which Democrats discriminated against Republicans for their...
Date
January 4, 2019
Americans are entitled to a democracy that works for them, and having HR1 passed as the first order of business in the new Congress.
Date
December 13, 2018
Issues
Court ruling echoes CLC argument: ranked choice voting encourages First Amendment expression without discriminating against any voter based on viewpoint or other criteria.
Date
December 13, 2018
Issues
Strengthening the law requiring independence of candidates from outside groups is critical to loosening the influence that megadonors who fund super PACs hold over candidates and officeholders.
Date
December 4, 2018
Issues
The Council of the District of Columbia voted in favor of the Campaign Finance Reform Amendment Act of 2018, a sweeping campaign finance reform bill that will reduce the disproportionate influence of money in D.C. politics.
Date
June 5, 2011
Issues
Today, the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) clearly outlining that it is illegal for federal officeholders and candidates to solicit unlimited contributions for Super PACs. The comments address Advisory Opinion Request (AOR) 2011-12...
Date
August 13, 2018
Issues
Secretary Ross’s vague and inconsistent filings raise questions about whether the financial interests of a wealthy cabinet secretary influenced administration policies affecting American companies.
Date
February 24, 2014
Issues
CLC is trying to get the FEC to uphold federal disclaimer requirements for political advertisements on mobile phones and further pressed the agency to conduct a related rulemaking originally proposed by the FEC in 2011.
Date
November 7, 2018
In the 2018 midterms, Americans overwhelmingly voted to support measures to end extreme partisan gerrymandering, improve the way we fund elections to give every day voters a voice in the political process, expand voting access and move toward a more ethical and accountable government.
Date
November 9, 2018
Case
Issues
The Maricopa County Superior Court, upon agreement of the parties, ordered all county recorders statewide to permit voters to “cure” their signature mismatch issue by the deadline to fix conditional provisional ballots next week: Wednesday, November 15.