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Today, the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause and the Sunlight Foundation filed complaints at the Federal Communications Commission against two television stations that incorrectly identified front groups as the “true sponsors” of political advertisements, when they were in fact paid for by one...
This evening, the Campaign Legal Center officially dedicated the Ham Rove Memorial Conference Room, with an assist from comedian Stephen Colbert, in order to meet the sole condition for accepting a generous check from the Ham Rove Memorial Fund. The popular host of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report...
All of us at the Campaign Legal Center were shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the passing this morning of Bob Edgar, the tireless and dedicated president of Common Cause. Bob brought passion and integrity to all of his many undertakings and his steadfast presence and dedication in the reform...
This week more jurisdictions moved forward with bailouts from the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act as the Supreme Court weighs a challenge to the constitutionality of those provisions. Yesterday, a three-judge court in Washington, DC approved a final consent decree exempting the...
The more details that emerge about the conduct of the IRS in regard to applications by groups for 501(c)(4) status, the more clear it becomes that congressional hearings should be held. The IRS’ Exempt Organizations Division appears to have been overwhelmed by the rapid increase in 501(c)(4) ...
The Campaign Legal Center and American University’s Washington College of Law will jointly launch a new Voting Rights Law Institute this summer to help train the next generation voting rights litigators. The four-night Institute will be held June 24 - 27, to train and update law students and...
Last night, Stephen Colbert announced on the Colbert Report that the Ham Rove Memorial Fund had made a grant of more than $135,000 to the Campaign Legal Center. A condition of the grant requires that the Legal Center name its conference room The Ham Rove Memorial Conference Room. The staff at the...
Tonight, the Campaign Legal Center and American University’s Washington College of Law will jointly launch a new Voting Rights Law Institute to help train the next generation voting rights litigators. The four-night Institute will be held tonight through Thursday night (June 27), to train and...
The Campaign Legal Center is one of seven nonprofit organizations around the world to receive the 2014 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The Award, which was announced today, recognizes exceptional nonprofit organizations who have demonstrated creativity and impact, and...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center welcomes former Federal Election Commission (FEC) General Counsel Larry Noble to its staff, along with Legal Fellow Catherine Hinckley Kelley and Operations Manager Kazi Jones.
“It will be a pleasure to be back working side by side with Larry, and benefiting from...
Late Friday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a notice reminding all U.S. television broadcasters that as of July 1, 2014, they will be required to post their political files online in a Commission-hosted database. Of vital importance in this requirement is the information it...
Today, the Public Interest Public Airwaves Coalition (PIPAC), whose members include the Benton Foundation, the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Free Press, the New America Foundation and the United Church of Christ Office of Communication Inc., along with the Sunlight Foundation, filed comments...
Today, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Free Speech v. FEC, letting stand a decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold FEC rules and policies relating to the determination of “political committee” status and, by extension, the registration and reporting requirements applicable...
Today, in ProtectMarriage.com v. Bowen, the Ninth Circuit rejected a constitutional challenge to disclosure requirements in California’s Political Reform Act that require state ballot measure committees to identify their campaign contributors above a $100 reporting threshold. The groups that...
On June 2, the State of Delaware filed its opening brief with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the reversal of a lower court decision that preliminarily enjoined Delaware’s disclosure law as applied to a nonprofit group, Delaware Strong Families (DSF). The case, Delaware Strong Families v...
This semester, Georgetown University law students will have the opportunity for hands-on legal work on pending election law and voting rights cases through a practicum course for credit. The election law class will be co-taught by Paul M. Smith, the Chair of Jenner & Block’s Appellate and Supreme...
The Campaign Legal Center is pleased to announce that Scott Thomas, former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), has joined the organization’s Board of Directors. Mr. Thomas is currently co-leader of the Public Policy and Political Law Practice at the law firm Dickstein Shapiro.
Firs...
Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a rulemaking to expand online political file requirements to cable satellite and radio. The action came in response to a petition filed last week by the Campaign Legal Center, the Sunlight Foundation, and Common Cause. The FCC notice...
Today, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) voluntarily withdrew its appeal of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) requirement to upload its public inspection files online to an FCC database. The NAB had appealed the 2008 Order imposing the online file requirement, which...