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The first staff congressional plan proposed to the Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission dilutes the electoral influence of Colorado’s Latino Voters. On Sept. 10, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted comments to the commission outlining the deficiencies in the proposed plan.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a demonstrative plan on behalf of the plaintiffs for Milwaukee-area state assembly districts to remedy vote dilution.
On Sept. 7, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a First Amended Complaint challenging malapportioned districts and districts that dilute the voting strength of Black voters.
On behalf of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC), Voces de la Frontera and League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, and three individual voters, Campaign Legal Center filed the attached complaint in Wisconsin on Aug. 19, 2021 alleging malapportionment of the existing state legislative districts, and asked the court to set a schedule to consider a court-drawn plan in light of the likely impasse between the legislature and the governor.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) asks the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate Rep. Tom Malinowski for a possible violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act and House rules. From 2019 to 2021, Rep. Malinowski made more than one hundred stock trades worth approximately between $1.3 million to $5 million without filing any periodic transaction reports as required by the STOCK Act and House rules.
Records of stock transactions from various Senators and Representatives of both parties that occurred between mid-March to mid-April.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) asks the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Sen. Rand Paul for a possible violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. Sen. Paul failed to properly disclose a stock purchase in a company that makes COVID-19 treatments.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) asks the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Sen. Tommy Tuberville for a possible violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. Sen. Tuberville failed to properly disclose nearly 130 separate stock and stock-option trades together worth at least $894,000 and as much as $3.5 million.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) asks the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate Rep. Blake Moore for a possible violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act and House rules. Rep. Moore failed to properly disclose 70 separate stock and stock-option trades together worth at least $70,000 and as much as $1.1 million.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) asks the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate Rep. Pat Fallon for a possible violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act and House rules. Rep. Fallon failed to properly disclose 93 stock trades together worth at least $7.8 million and as much as $17.53 million.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) asks the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate Rep. Diane Harshbarger for a possible violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act and House rules. Rep. Harshbarger failed to properly disclose more than 700 stock and securities trades together worth at least $728,000 and as much as $10.9 million.
On Aug. 17, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted the following comments regarding the Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission staff’s preliminary congressional and state legislative plans on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Colorado League of United Latin American Citizens (Colorado LULAC).
On Oct. 15, 2020, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee requesting an investigation of whether Sen. Lindsey Graham violated federal law and Senate rules by soliciting campaign contributions in a Senate building following a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was chairing on Oct. 14, 2020.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee requesting an investigation of whether Sen. Kelly Loeffler violated federal law and Senate rules by soliciting campaign contributions in a Senate building.
On July 9, 2021, CLC presented testimony to the Montana Districting and Apportionment Commission in support of ending prison gerrymandering using the reallocation method.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiffs’ case, upholding Michigan’s independent redistricting commission as consistent with the First Amendment.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint asking the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate possible violations of House rules by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy appears to have paid below market rate for a luxury apartment, an improper gift in violation of House gift rules; in the alternative, he may have used leadership political action committee (PAC) funds to offset the cost of rent, which would be a violation of the personal use ban.