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Campaign Legal Center (CLC), on behalf of itself, All Voting is Local Florida, the ACLU of Florida, the League of Women Voters of Florida, Democracy for All Florida and Opportunity For All Floridians, sent a letter opposing the signature matching provisions in House Bill 7041 to the Florida House Appropriations Committee. These provisions would lead to higher rates of erroneous ballot rejections, and thus unjustly disenfranchise voters across Florida.
On April 8, 2021, Giffords and Campaign Legal Center Action (CLCA) supplemented their complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that the National Rifle Association's (NRA) super PAC, the NRA Victory Fund, violated its reporting obligations.
VoteAmerica, Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information filed this lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for imposing disclaimer requirements and other burdensome prohibitions on absentee ballot applications distribution, which violates their First Amendment right to distribute absentee ballot applications as core political speech. Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing these three nonprofits in this case.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee requesting an investigation into whether Sen. Ted Cruz violated Senate ethics rules by converting campaign funds to personal use. Sen. Cruz’s campaign committee spent up to $18,000 on Facebook ads exclusively promoting Sen. Cruz’s book, for which he stands to receive royalties, seemingly in violation of the personal use ban.
On April 7, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign committee, Ted Cruz for Senate, violated federal law by using up to $18,000 in campaign funds on Facebook ads promoting the sale of Cruz's book.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC), on behalf of itself, the ACLU of Florida, the League of Women Voters of Florida, Democracy for All Florida and Opportunity For All Floridians, sent a letter opposing the most recent signature provisions of Senate Bill 90 to the Florida Senate Committee on Rules. These provisions would prohibit election authorities from consulting any signature on file from the voter other than the most recent signature, and if enacted, they would lead to higher rates of erroneous ballot rejections, and thus unjustly disenfranchise eligible voters across Florida.
On April 1, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Common Cause and League of Women Voters of California (LWV) submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold California’s law that requires charitable groups active in the state to file nonpublic tax reports – Schedule Bs – with the state Attorney General (AG) listing their largest donors.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota issued an opinion and order in Campaign Legal Center's (CLC) case challenging Minnesota’s strict witness requirements for voting absentee in elections.
On March 31, 2021, the district court issued an opinion declaring that Virginia Beach’s system of election violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of Black, Latino, and Asian American voters, enjoining the use of that system and granting the plaintiffs’ request for attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses.
On March 31, 2021, Campaign Legal Center Action (CLCA) and Common Cause Georgia filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that True the Vote and the Georgia Republican Party violated federal campaign finance law by illegally coordinating ahead of the January 2021 Senate runoff elections.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted an open letter calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to establish a new routine use exception that would enable the Federal Bureau of Prisons to share the data necessary to allow states and localities to implement two pro-democracy reforms: enacting universal enfranchisement and abolishing prison gerrymandering. The League of Women Voters and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs joined in support.
This Campaign Legal Center (CLC) report describes how the For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1) would end dark money and is crafted to address the real-world practices that wealthy special interests have used to keep their political donations hidden from the public.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted testimony to support a bill that would abolish prison gerrymandering in Connecticut. The testimony stated that Connecticut’s system of prison gerrymandering distorts the redistricting process and deprives Connecticut communities of fair and equal representation.
On March 18, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a brief of plaintiffs appealing the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendants.
Campaign Legal Center conducted a study of members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ cooperation with ethics investigations initiated by the U.S. Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). The findings show that members of Congress from both major political parties refuse to fully cooperate with ethics investigations, and the rate of cooperation has declined in recent Congresses.
On March 17, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Sig Sauer, Inc. violated the ban on federal contractors making political contributions when it gave $100,000 to the super PAC Gun Owners Action Fund.
On March 17, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Service Tire Truck Centers violated the ban on federal contractors making political contributions when it gave $50,000 to the super PAC Senate Leadership Fund.
On March 17, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. violated the ban on federal contractors making political contributions when it gave $10,000 to the super PAC Senate Leadership Fund.
On March 17, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Hamilton Company violated the ban on federal contractors making political contributions when it gave $300,000 to the super PAC Americans for Prosperity Action.