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Today, the Supreme Court has decided to decline to expedite briefing in the North Carolina partisan gerrymandering cases. Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) represent the League of Women Voters of North Carolina, one of the groups challenging the state’s...
Mayor Bowser should support this public financing program, which incentivizes District candidates to seek support from a wider group of young, diverse voters
WASHINGTON - Today, the Council of the District of Columbia voted decisively to approve the Fair Elections Act of 2017. The District will...
Today, a range of groups from across the political spectrum called on both the House and Senate to make significant reforms to their ethics processes to increase public confidence in the integrity of the institution. At a roundtable event on Capitol Hill to be aired later by C-Span, the groups...
A Federal Election Commission that functions and enforces the law is critical to a healthy democracy
WASHINGTON – Lee Goodman announced Wednesday that he is stepping down from his post as Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (FEC). This strips the FEC down to four commissioners, which...
Tonight, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated the State of Texas’ Voter Photo ID (SB 14) law in Veasey v. Perry, just five days after a U.S. District Court struck down the law finding it had “an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African-Americans, and...
Some challenges will be insurmountable, but at least Rounds is committed to government ethics program
“I was very excited to learn the White House is nominating Emory Rounds to be OGE’s next Director,” said Walter Shaub, senior director, ethics at Campaign Legal Center. “I have known him since...
Current law allows former candidates to keep campaign accounts open forever, inviting abuse of funds through personal use
WASHINGTON – A recent investigation by the Tampa Bay Times and WTSP-TV exposed the fact that 102 former campaigns were still spending money years after their candidates left...
Tonight, a federal court struck down Texas’ Voter ID (SB 14) law as an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote in Veasey v. Perry. Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Corpus Christi found SB 14 had “an impermissible discriminatory effect...
Today, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) ignored the laws passed by Congress in order to provide wealthy individuals a way to double the amount they can contribute to the national political parties. Vice Chair Ann Ravel joined with Republican Commissioners to greenlight the gutting of existing...
Notoriously lax rules for inaugural spending allowed Trump committee to funnel money to firm close to family
WASHINGTON – Today, President Trump’s inaugural committee disclosed in tax filings that it had raised an astonishing $107 million for the inauguration, and paid an unprecedented $26...
Brendan Fischer, director, federal and FEC reform at Campaign Legal Center (CLC) released the following statement about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russian nationals for conspiracy to defraud the United States through interference in the 2016 elections:
“It shouldn’t require...
Today, the Texas Court of Appeals for the Third District affirmed a sweeping lower court decision upholding numerous provisions of Texas campaign finance law in Texas Democratic Party v. King Street Patriots. The Campaign Legal Center filed amicus briefs in both the district court and the Court of...
Multiple states can follow PA’s lead if U.S. Supreme Court adopts a standard for measuring unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering
WASHINGTON – Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an order with a new congressional district map for the state’s 2018 elections after it ruled in January...
Yesterday, President Trump urged Pennsylvania Republicans to stand by their original extreme partisan gerrymandered map, which were struck down by their State Supreme Court, after the court said it clearly and plainly violated the state’s constitution.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) released the...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21, strongly urged the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to reject the request from the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Democratic National Committee (DNC) seeking to undermine the existing federal limits on contributions to national...
Today, Campaign Legal Center’s latest Voting Rights Institute training will take place in Miami, Florida. At the session, co-hosted by American Constitution Society, practitioners will learn the ‘ins and outs’ of protecting the right to vote through the enforcement of voting rights laws. Cases...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alabama, the ACLU Voting Rights Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the appeal of a federal lawsuit challenging Alabama’s...
District Court Rejects Challenge to Disclosure Provisions Upheld by Supreme Court in Citizens United
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a challenge to the federal “electioneering communications” disclosure provisions in Independence Institute v. Federal Election Commission (FEC). Last month, the Campaign Legal Center, joined by Democracy 21 and Public Citizen...
PHOENIX – Debbie Lesko, a congressional candidate for Arizona’s eighth district, illegally funneled $50,000 from her state campaign fund to a super PAC supporting her congressional race, according to a complaint Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
The...