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Groups Urge Court to Protect Seattle’s Innovative Public Financing System

Date
May 14, 2019
Case
Elster v. City of Seattle
Issues
Campaign Finance
Seattle citizens spoke loud and clear when they overwhelmingly passed the Honest Elections Seattle Initiative. The court should prioritize the First Amendment rights of city residents, by giving more people an opportunity to have their voices heard in our democracy.

Campaign Legal Center and End Citizens United File FEC Complaint Against Trump Campaign for Illegally Soliciting Contributions for “Independent” Super PAC

Date
May 9, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
If candidates are not punished for working hand-in-hand with super PACs, campaigns will stretch the legal boundaries until there is no way to prevent the corruption of candidates beholden to big money.

Bipartisan Bill Introduced Would Give Tools to Fight Foreign Interference in Elections

Date
May 8, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
The Honest Ads Act is a useful bipartisan disclosure response to the foreign interference we witnessed in 2016, and would make it more difficult for foreign actors to target American voters.

How the ‘Presidential Coalition’ Has Capitalized on its Leader’s Ties to the President and Misled Donors

Date
May 6, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
Despite telling donors that it would support conservative candidates with the funds raised, only three percent of The Presidential Coalition’s 2017 and 2018 spending went towards the direct political activity, according to a CLC research report.

Mueller Report Opens Door for Civil Enforcement by FEC

Date
April 30, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
Although Special Counsel Robert Mueller declined to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump Jr., Mueller provided a roadmap by which the FEC could pursue civil penalties.

Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA

Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has apparently used a series of shell corporations to unlawfully coordinate tens of millions of dollars in spending with federal campaigns across the country, including the 2016 Trump campaign. CLC has filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission...

Lawsuit: NRA Illegally Coordinated Up to $35 Million in Campaign Spending

Date
April 24, 2019
Case
Giffords v. FEC
Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA
Issues
Campaign Finance
The NRA’s complicated scheme had the effect of evading campaign contribution limits and shielding millions of dollars of political spending – including up to $25 million coordinated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign – from public scrutiny.

Giffords v. FEC

Updated
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

CLC Action filed suit against the FEC after it failed to announce any action on four complaints alleging illegal coordination between the NRA and seven federal campaigns via common vendors. CLC Action is suing the FEC to force it to hold the NRA accountable for violating the laws designed to limit...

Mueller Report Confirms Extreme Vulnerability of American Elections

Date
April 18, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
Details uncovered in the investigation lay bare the extent to which Russia conducted an organized campaign of information warfare against America with the goal of spreading chaos and distrust in our elections.

Election Watchdog Fines Senator Cruz for Failure to Report Loans Totaling Over $1 Million, in Violation of Federal Law

Date
March 15, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
The FEC fined the Cruz fore Senate campaign $35,000 for inaccurately reporting the source of campaign loans totaling $1,064,000, stemming from a complaint filed by CLC and Democracy 21 in 2016.

BREAKING: Record Fines Imposed Totaling $940,000 for Foreign Interference in Presidential Election by Chinese Corporation

Date
March 11, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
A record fine was handed down by the FEC after a complaint by CLC showed that a Chinese-owned corporation illegally contributed $1.3 million to a 2016 presidential campaign.

CLC’s Trevor Potter Applauds House for Passing HR 1

Date
March 8, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
Ethics
Voting Rights
Redistricting
This landmark bill would make our government more accessible, transparent, and responsive to citizens.

NRA Used Shell Company to Unlawfully Coordinate With Four U.S. Senate Candidates, Complaint Alleges

Date
July 16, 2018
Case
Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA
Issues
Campaign Finance
Campaign finance law prohibits coordination between candidates and outside groups like the NRA. In order to preserve their independence, FEC rules limit how a vendor may work for both a candidate and an outside group supporting that candidate.

CLC, Giffords Call on FEC to Investigate NRA Coordination with Rosendale Campaign

Date
September 17, 2018
Case
Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA
Issues
Campaign Finance
An audio recording indicates that a top NRA official told a Montana Senate candidate that the NRA would be spending in the Montana race, described the content of the ads and the timing, and the candidate assented to that suggestion.

CLC Flags NRA Coordination with Missouri Senate Campaign

Date
October 23, 2018
Case
Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA
Issues
Campaign Finance
CLC uncovered evidence that the NRA routed nearly $1 million through shell corporations to unlawfully coordinate with the Hawley for Senate campaign in Missouri.

CLC and Giffords Law Center Flag Overwhelming Evidence of Illegal Coordination of Millions in Spending Between NRA, Trump Campaign

Date
December 7, 2018
Case
Uncovering Illegal Coordination by the NRA
Issues
Campaign Finance
The NRA can legally make unlimited expenditures to support the Trump campaign only if the organizations are completely independent. But if the same people buying ads for the Trump campaign are also placing the NRA’s pro-Trump ads, then the NRA’s spending is not at all independent.

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Montana Case, Keeping Disclosure Laws in Place

Date
February 19, 2019
Case
Montanans for Community Development v. Mangan
Issues
Campaign Finance
Declining to hear this case protects the ability of state lawmakers across the country to use disclosure laws as a tool to promote transparency in elections.

CLC's Statement on DOJ Decision Not to Retry Bob McDonnell on Corruption Charges

Date
September 8, 2016
Case
McDonnell v. United States
Issues
Campaign Finance
Gov. Bob McDonnell clearly abused his office, but will face no penalty.

CREW v. FEC (CHGO)

Updated
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

This case presents an opportunity to reassert the important role of federal judges in holding the FEC accountable to its mandate when the commissioners are evenly divided on an enforcement question.

Montanans for Community Development v. Mangan

Updated
Status
Active
Issues
Campaign Finance

Montanans for Community Development (“MCD”) v. Mangan is a challenge to Montana’s disclosure laws, which serve to protect voters’ ability to know who is behind the election advertising they see, read, or hear. The laws at issue require political groups that spend money to influence Montana voters to...