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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.
Today the 5th Circuit affirmed the multi-million dollar verdict in the corruption case in Houston that CLC tried with Texas attorney Chad Dunn in 2016.
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.
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.
CLC is suing the GSA over its refusal to provide travel records responsive to CLC’s FOIA request.
On February 28, 2019, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) settled with the Campaign Legal Center (CLC). CLC sued the GSA over its refusal to release travel information in response to CLC's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. GSA agreed to pay CLC $33,000 in attorney fees.
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.
CLC submitted a statement of support for HR 1, the For the People Act of 2019, to Chairperson Zoe Lofgren and Rep. Rodney Davis of the Committee on House Administration in the United States House of Representatives. HR 1 is a landmark bill designed to address the most pressing challenges to our democracy, which are the four issues CLC focuses on: the influence of money in politics, the erosion of ethical norms, threats to voting rights, and extreme partisan gerrymandering.
CLC submitted a complaint to Inspector General Peggy Gustafson about Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over his failure to divest BankUnited stock, which he claimed to have divested on government forms that he signed under penalty of perjury.
This statement is by Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and chief of staff at CLC. It was delivered before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives on January 29, 2019.
As a part of CLC's litigation with the General Services Administration (GSA) over FOIA documents, GSA has released 120 pages of responsive documents about government travel. This includes agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and more.
As a part of CLC's litigation with the General Services Administration (GSA) over FOIA documents, data about travel records for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was released. The document contains agency travel information, including destination and cost of flights.
CLC published an issue brief on the recently-proposed Political Accountability and Transparency Act, a bipartisan campaign law reform bill.
On January 15, 2019, the Campaign Legal Center submitted comments to Alice T. Germond, Chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission on a proposed amendment to the materiality standard for financial interests in real property. While the proposed amendment intends to simplify the process of making materiality determinations in real property conflicts of interest, it may have unintended negative consequences.
Since Wilbur Ross was confirmed to his cabinet position as Commerce Secretary in February 2017, CLC has conducted vigorous oversight of his conduct, due to public concerns that his own financial interests conflict with the public interest.
CLC submitted a complaint to the Department of Justice on January 8, 2019 to investigate a failure to register as a lobbyist for a Chinese telecom company. Former Senator Joseph Lieberman had been advising the company, ZTE, on matters affecting U.S. policy, and are requesting that the Foreign Agent Registration Unit investigate.
H.R.1, "For the People Act" was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. This landmark legislation would: increase transparency of campaign spending; set up a system of small-donor matching funds for congressional candidates; revive the matching-fund system for presidential campaigns; expand conflict-of-interest laws; increase oversight of lobbyists; end partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts; establish nationwide automatic voter registration; and reinforce the Voting Rights Act.
This frequently asked questions sheet explains what Donald Trump Jr. did that was illegal according to campaign finance law.