CLC and Issue One filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court, arguing that states are permitted to require presidential electors to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their home state, and showing that federal and state laws are not currently sufficient to ensure the transparency and legitimacy of the electoral college voting process if the electors are unbound.

On April 28, 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Chiafalo v. Washington (linked with Colorado Department of State v. Baca), a constitutional challenge to the requirement that presidential electors – the people who physically cast their state’s electoral votes – must vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in their state.

CLC released a report that highlights recent examples of groups exploiting gaps in campaign finance law to keep voters in the dark about online political ads. Among other examples, it points to two dark money groups, Big Tent Project Fund and Fellow Americans, that reported millions in ad spending to the Federal Election Commission, but only a small fraction of that spending is appearing in large digital platforms' public archives. These examples provide a compelling case for Congress to adopt across-the-board digital disclosure legislation. 

As public health precautions around the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause disruptions and delays to the ongoing primary elections, states must take steps now to ensure that the general election in November runs smoothly.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined a coalition of national and Ohio-based groups urging Ohio’s Governor and Secretary of State to take immediate action to protect Ohioans’ right to vote and ensure a safe and orderly primary election in Ohio. 

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined with partners in Arizona to urge the state’s Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General to take immediate action to protect Arizonans’ right to vote and ensure a safe and orderly primary election in Arizona. 

This is the list of felony convictions that strip a person of the right to vote in Alabama. No other felonies take away the right to vote in Alabama. Even if your conviction is on this list, you may still have a path to rights restoration through a Certificate of Eligibility to Register to Vote. Visit RestoreYourVote.org for more information.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) requested an investigation into whether U.S. Representative Steven Palazzo converted campaign funds to personal use in violation of House rules and FECA.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) wrote to Congress urging them to allocate funding for critical nonpartisan election reforms for the 2020 general election in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined a coalition of over 200 national, state, and local voting rights and good government groups to advocate for the rapid adoption of key policies to protect voting rights and ensure the safe and orderly conduct of the 2020 general election. 

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and a coalition of good government groups wrote a letter to the Wisconsin Governor and the Wisconsin state legislature asking them to consider several steps to increase opportunities for voting during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that all Wisconsin citizens are able to participate in the upcoming April 7 primary election.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined 150+ civil and voting rights organizations to urge Congress to include funding for election administrators in the Phase Three COVID-19 aid bill. These funds are critical for state and local election administrators to be able to implement policies to ensure that voters have access to the ballot in the November general election amidst the spread of COVID-19.

CLC has sued the Federal Election Commission for its more than four-year delay in enforcing a federal prohibition on candidates establishing or operating super PACs as “slush funds” for their campaigns. The lawsuit is based on a FEC complaint CLC filed asserting that the 2016 campaign of then-presidential candidate John Elias “Jeb” Bush violated this law by setting up Right to Rise Super PAC, which subsequently spent over $86 million to support his election.

A recent nationwide survey of likely 2020 general election voters commissioned by the Campaign Legal Center finds that voters overwhelmingly prefer congressional districts with no partisan bias, even if it meant less seats for their own party.

The survey also showed strong opposition to gerrymandering and broad, bipartisan support for the Supreme Court to set clear rules for when gerrymandering violates the Constitution.

For our democracy to work, the financing of our elections must be transparent. Today, wealthy special interests are spending vast sums of money and hiding their involvement behind anonymous shell corporations and entities, leaving voters in the dark. Effective legislative solutions will put an end to this deception and restore transparency to our elections.

Though redistricting has always been a problem in American politics, the outsized role of partisanship in the redistricting process has received unprecedented attention across the nation since 2010. This guide is intended to arm legislators, good government advocates, and activists with the knowledge needed to design an independent redistricting commission for state legislative or congressional districts. 

On March 11, the Campaign Legal Center and More Equitable Democracy submitted written testimony in support of the New York Voting Rights Act (S. 7528) because it would allow communities of color across the state of New York to participate equally in the election of their representatives. In particular it allows for the adoption of remedies like ranked choice voting and cumulative voting that can enfranchise integrated communities of color (while the federal Voting Rights Act still only offers protections to relatively segregated minority communities).

CLC filed suit against the U.S. Census Bureau under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking access to documents about the Bureau’s efforts to use state driver-license records to help estimate how many adult U.S. citizens live on each census block in the nation.

CLC asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether former U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen violated federal law’s revolving door ban at 18 U.S.C. § 207(f) by appearing to provide behind-the-scenes support for Hong Kong's lobbying efforts less than one year after leaving Congress.