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CLC submitted this request under the Freedom of Information Act to the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau. The request seeks emails and other internal communications about the formation and termination of the Census Bureau’s partnership with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The Census Bureau recently formed a formal partnership with CAIR to promote Muslim American participation in the 2020 Census, but the government quickly ended that partnership amid critical coverage by news organizations including FOX News. CLC seeks to understand why the government reversed course on working with CAIR.
Census Bureau FOIA October 21, 2019 Regarding Presidential Executive Order Requiring CVAP Tabulation
CLC submitted this request under the Freedom of Information Act to the U.S. Census Bureau. The request seeks documents related to the Census Bureau’s current attempt to obtain state government records related to driver licenses. The Bureau intends to use these state records to help compile data on how many voting-age U.S. citizens live on each census block. However, CLC is concerned about this plan because records on citizenship status held by state driver-license agencies are often outdated and inaccurate. CLC therefore filed this FOIA request to investigate why the Bureau wants driver-license records, how expansive the Bureau’s request for these records is, and what decisions the Bureau has made about the role these records will play in compiling citizenship data.
CLC urges the President to give the Census Bureau the time it needs to complete a fair and accurate count, and the use of total population rather than citizen population for reapportionment and redistricting.
CLC is suing to challenge Rhode Island’s witness/notary requirement for voting by mail, which is a heavy burden on voters that fear contracting COVID-19 during 2020 elections.
After CLC and partners filed a friend-of-the-court brief in this case, the Washington Supreme Court issued an opinion interpreting the Washington constitution's uniformity provisions in a way that underscores the constitutionality of the Washington Voting Rights Act.
This case considers whether the FEC can shield its enforcement decisions from any court review whenever a minority of commissioners invoke “prosecutorial discretion” as one reason for dismissing serious alleged violations of campaign finance law.
Campaign Legal Center's report documents digital transparency gaps in the 2020 elections. CLC's research found that over a dozen super PACs or dark money groups reported tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital independent expenditures to the FEC, but none or only a fraction of the FEC-reported ads could be identified in the Facebook, Google, Snapchat, or Reddit archives.
Today, CLC submitted public comments to the Vermont State Ethics Commission regarding a proposed statutory ethics code. CLC’s comments support Vermont’s effort to promulgate a statute with meaningful safeguards to maintain Vermonters’ trust in their state government.
Specifically, CLC’s comments recommend changes to the proposed code’s gift rules, misuse of position provision, and outside and post-government employment restrictions. CLC also recommends that the Vermont State Ethics Commission house all financial disclosure documents and ethics disclosures required to be filed by state public servants in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format on the ethics commission’s website.
CLC filed a complaint with the FEC alleging that FL-19 Congressional candidate Byron Donalds violated federal law by “transfer[ring]” nonfederal funds from a candidate-controlled state political committee, Friends of Byron Donalds, to a federal super PAC in connection with Donalds’s federal election, and that Conservatives for Effective Government and Friends of Byron Donalds made a contribution to the super PAC in violation of federal law’s straw donor ban.
CLC is challenging Pennsylvania’s policy of rejecting mail-in ballots under an error-prone signature verification process without first informing voters there is a problem with their ballot or giving them an opportunity to fix it and have their vote count.
CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that the authorized campaign committee of MN-05 congressional candidate Antone Melton-Meaux violated campaign finance law's reporting requirements by routing over 77% of its spending through three recently created LLCs.
CLC is suing to challenge Tennessee’s policy reversal regarding voting rights for Tennesseans who have been convicted of felonies in other states.
CLC filed this reply brief in support of Mr. Falls' and Mr. Bledsoe's request for a Temporary Injunction to allow them to vote on Aug. 6.
CLC is challenging New Jersey’s policy of rejecting mail-in ballots under an error-prone signature verification process without first informing voters there is a problem with their ballot or giving them an opportunity to fix it and have their vote count.
CLC is challenging New York’s flawed absentee ballot verification process that, in the 2018 general election, silently rejected nearly 14% of all absentee ballots cast without providing affected voters with notice of or an opportunity to fix ballot defects.
On November 15, 2019, the district court granted the motion to intervene filed by Correct the Record and Hillary for America, allowing the groups to participate in the case as intervenor-defendants notwithstanding the FEC’s absence.
On July 24, 2020, plaintiffs filed a motion for summary judgment and supporting brief arguing that the dismissal of CLC’s administrative complaint against Correct the Record and the Clinton campaign was contrary to law and should be set aside.