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CLC v. Heritage Action

Updated
May 5, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

After the FEC failed to take action for over three years, CLC filed suit against the dark money group Heritage Action for America to enforce disclosure laws. Heritage Action spent over $1 million to influence federal elections in 2018 cycle without reporting its funding sources. 

Preventing Wealthy Special Interests from Using Shell Companies to Keep Their Political Spending Secret

Updated
April 26, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

To keep their electoral spending secret, wealthy special interests often funnel contributions through vaguely named LLCs or corporate entities — a violation of federal law that fundamentally undermines transparency. Campaign Legal Center (CLC) takes action to support robust enforcement of laws...

In the Matter of the 2022 Maryland Legislative Redistricting

Updated
April 14, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

This case is a challenge to Maryland’s state legislative redistricting plan, arguing that the plan is an extreme partisan gerrymander that violates the Maryland Constitution. CLC filed an amicus brief discussing the harms of partisan gerrymandering and advocating that the Maryland Court of Appeals...

LUCHA v. Hobbs

Updated
March 31, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Campaign Legal Center and co-counsel filed a lawsuit on behalf of several national and Arizona-based organizations alleging that Arizona’s new anti-voter law — H.B. 2492 — imposes severe, arbitrary and discriminatory burdens on Arizona voters that undermine their freedom to vote and violate federal...

CLC v. FEC (Delay Suit—Trump Campaign Subvendor Reporting)

Updated
March 29, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

CLC has sued the FEC for its failure to act on CLC’s July 2020 administrative complaint alleging that then-President Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign committee (and an associated fundraising committee) violated federal campaign finance transparency requirements by routing hundreds of millions of...

LWV Utah and MWEG v. Utah State Legislature

Updated
March 22, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing the League of Women Voters of Utah (LWV), Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) and individual voters in a lawsuit to block Utah from implementing a congressional redistricting map that constitutes an extreme partisan gerrymander and reinstating the...

Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Merrill

Updated
February 22, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a lawsuit against the Alabama Secretary of State on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM) to seek public records related to lists of purged voters, as well as Alabamians denied the right to vote due to felony convictions under the National Voter Registration...

Alonzo, et al. v. Schwab

Updated
February 14, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

Kansas’ 2022 congressional redistricting plan is a partisan and racial gerrymander that violates the rights of Kansan voters under the state constitution. CLC, along with co-counsel, represents 11 voters challenging the unconstitutional plan and demanding a fair map. 

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Spirit Lake Nation, et al., v. Jaeger

Updated
February 8, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

North Dakota’s 2021 legislative map illegally dilutes Native Americans’ voting power in northern North Dakota. The Spirit Lake Nation, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and individual Native voters challenged the map under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Banerian v. Benson

Updated
February 7, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

Michiganders approved a constitutional amendment to create an IRC to redraw the state’s voting districts. After the commission drew new congressional maps following the 2020 census, a group of plaintiffs filed a lawsuit challenging them. CLC represents VNP, a nonpartisan, citizen-led organization...

CLC et al v. Scott

Updated
February 1, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Campaign Legal Center (CLC), ACLU Texas, MALDEF, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and DĒMOS asked a district court to order Secretary of State John B. Scott to produce records responsive to their August and October 2021 records requests seeking information about the state’s new voter...

Soto Palmer, et al., v. Hobbs, et al.

Updated
January 19, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

CLC and co-counsel are suing to ensure that the voting strength of Latino voters is not unlawfully diluted in state legislative elections in Washington’s Yakima Valley and Pasco region, that this community can remain together and that Latino voters have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of...

Petteway v. Galveston County, Texas

Updated
January 18, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

Galveston County, Texas has a long history of diminishing the voting strength of Black and Latino voters in county-wide elections. To enable voters to decide elections’ outcomes, CLC is representing several Galveston County residents to challenge Galveston County’s ongoing discrimination in drawing...

CLC v. 45Committee

Updated
April 22, 2022
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

CLC sued the Federal Election Commission for failing to enforce transparency laws, thereby allowing large, anonymous donors to funnel millions of dollars into political activity through 45Committee, a dark money group. After the FEC failed to act, the court authorized CLC to file suit against...

Promoting Strong Enforcement of Ethics Laws at the State and Local Levels

Updated
December 20, 2021
Status
Active
Issues
Ethics

The health of our democracy depends on accountable, inclusive and transparent processes at all levels of government. CLC works with lawmakers, ethics commissions and other nonprofit groups in cities and states to provide guidance and propose solutions for stronger ethics at the state and local...

Strengthening Congressional Ethics Laws and Holding Lawmakers Accountable for Violations

Updated
December 20, 2021
Status
Active
Issues
Ethics

Members of Congress are elected to serve their constituents’ interests. Ethics laws provide the accountability and transparency necessary to ensure that members of Congress are committed to the people rather than their own wallets. CLC proposes solutions for stronger ethics in Congress and serves as...

Enforcing and Strengthening Executive Branch Ethics Laws

Updated
December 20, 2021
Status
Active
Issues
Ethics

Federal executive branch officials should make decisions with the public’s best interests in mind. Ethics laws are exist to maintain this high standard. CLC works to hold officials accountable to these laws laws and proposes stricter laws where needed to compel officials to serve the public’s...

FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate

Updated
December 8, 2021
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

Federal law limits candidates from using more than $250,000 in contributions raised post-election to repay personal loans candidates make to their campaigns. In 2018, Sen. Ted Cruz and his Senate campaign committee sued the FEC, complaining that this law violated the First Amendment.   

CLC v. Iowa Values

Updated
November 29, 2021
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

CLC filed suit against Iowa Values, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the reelection of Sen. Joni Ernst, for failing to register as a PAC and disclose the sources and recipients of its election spending, depriving voters of the right to know who funded its efforts to influence a competitive Senate...

Ensuring Colorado’s Redistricting Maps Fulfill the State Constitution’s Protections Against Vote Dilution

Updated
October 29, 2021
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed two briefs in two cases before the Colorado Supreme Court on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Colorado League United of Latin American Citizens (together, “LULAC”), advocating for congressional and state legislative redistricting maps...

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