On February 1, 2018, CLC submitted a FOIA request  to the U.S. Census Bureau to obtain information on the 2020 Census citizenship question.

CLC filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel on May 8, 2019 requesting an investigation into Special Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway for an apparent violation of the Hatch Act.

CLC filed an amended complaint on behalf of individuals against the City of Virginia Beach. Virginia Beach City Council, the City Manager and the Director of Elections/General Registrar challenging the at-large election system used to elect members of the City Council.

CLC filed written testimony to the New Hampshire Senate Committee on Election Law and Municipal Affairs in support of House Bill 706, a bill establishing an independent redistricting commission (“IRC”) in New Hampshire. CLC argues that the bill is constitutional under federal and New Hampshire law, the transparency requirements are good public policy, and the commission is unlikely to produce gerrymandered districts because the commission must reach consensus to approve a map.  

The Department of Justice on March 29, 2019 responded to CLC's FOIA request from January 20, 2017 about the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. This document contains correspondence released on behalf of the Office of the Attorney General.

On March 29, 2019, the Department of Justice responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Campaign Legal Center (CLC). The response includes 129 pages of documents pertaining to the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

On Friday, March 29, 2019, The Department of Justice provided an additional 129 pages of documents in response to CLC’s FOIA Request seeking documents related to the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The documents originated from the Office of the Attorney General, and were provided pursuant to an Order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The Campaign Legal Center urges the Commission on Integrity and Public Confidence in State Government to recommend that Virginia establish an independent redistricting commission to draw districts for congressional and state legislative elections.  

The Office of Special Counsel determined that there was no Hatch Act violation because Benton relayed to the event coordinators that he was speaking in his personal capacity and stated so in the beginning of his speech. The letter was signed by Ana Galindo-Marrone, Chief of the Hatch Act Unit.

CLC submitted written comments to the San Francisco Ethics Commission regarding the Commission's substantive review of the city's public financing program. CLC's comments include recommendations to improve public participation in San Francisco campaigns by amending the program's qualification requirements and by increasing the matching funds rate for city residents' contributions to candidates participating in the program. 

On March 4, 2019, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) urging the FEC to make its process of issuing advisory opinions more transparent and to allow public comment before issuing final advisory opinions.

Plaintiffs in Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina filed their final brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, just more than three weeks before the Court is slated to hear oral arguments in the partisan gerrymandering cases out of North Carolina and Maryland on March 26. Lower court victories for the plaintiffs in North Carolina mark the first time an entire state’s congressional plan has been struck down for being an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. 

On March 1, 2019, CLC's Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and chief of staff, submitted responses to questions for the record in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary's HR 1 hearing.

On February 20, 2019, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a statement for the record to the House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee on HR 1. The statement highlights HR 1's expansion of Office of Government Ethics OGE oversight duties, codification of the ethics pledge, and requirements related to the disclosure of certain dark money provisions.

CLC sent a letter to Mary Kendall, the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of the Interior, to request an investigation into several senior members of the Department of the Interior for violations of their ethics pledges.

The defendants filed an emergency application for stay at the Supreme Court in Rucho v. League of Women Voters of North Carolina.

CLC filed its motion urging the Supreme Court to expedite review of North Carolina's partisan gerrymander.

On March 12, 2018, Rucho et al. filed a jurisdictional statement asking the Court to hold this case pending the decisions of other gerrymandering cases, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone.

Rucho et al. filed an appendix to their jurisdictional statement that asked the Court to hold this case pending the decisions of other gerrymandering cases,  Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone.

Plaintiffs in North Carolina’s partisan gerrymandering challenge, League of Women Voters of North Carolina v. Rucho, filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court today asking the court to affirm the lower court’s ruling that found the entire state’s plan to be an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. CLC the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), and University of Chicago Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos represent plaintiffs in the case.