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Campaign Legal Center seeks a future in which the American political process is accessible to all citizens.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. HOW WOULD H.R. 1 IMPROVE ACCESS TO VOTING? On March 3, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the For the People Act, H.R. 1, a transformative bill that would set baseline standards and reverse coordinated efforts to restrict access to votingat the state level.
EIGHT WAYS RANKED CHOICE VOTING CAN IMPROVE VOTING AND Voting for more than one candidate on the ballot in a single race may seem a little odd to most, but to those familiar with ranked choicevoting (RCV), it
DANA PAIKOWSKY
Dana is a nationally recognized expert on incarcerated voting. She works to combat jail-based disenfranchisement across the country using a diversity of tactics, including direct outreach strategies, policy advocacy, oversight, and litigation.ERIN CHLOPAK
Erin Chlopak joined CLC in August 2018, after spending nearly a decade working on a wide range of campaign finance issues in the Federal Election Commission’s Office of General Counsel. HOW THE ‘PRESIDENTIAL COALITION’ HAS CAPITALIZED ON ITS A group called the Presidential Coalition is capitalizing on its leader's ties to the President and misleading donors about where theirmoney is going.
VESILIND V. VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS In 2015, a group of individual voters in Virginia challenged the 2011 Virginia General Assembly maps as violating the state constitution, arguing that the map drawers subordinated compactness and prioritized partisan criteria in order to achieve self-interested politicalobjectives.
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
Campaign Legal Center seeks a future in which the American political process is accessible to all citizens.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. HOW WOULD H.R. 1 IMPROVE ACCESS TO VOTING? On March 3, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the For the People Act, H.R. 1, a transformative bill that would set baseline standards and reverse coordinated efforts to restrict access to votingat the state level.
EIGHT WAYS RANKED CHOICE VOTING CAN IMPROVE VOTING AND Voting for more than one candidate on the ballot in a single race may seem a little odd to most, but to those familiar with ranked choicevoting (RCV), it
DANA PAIKOWSKY
Dana is a nationally recognized expert on incarcerated voting. She works to combat jail-based disenfranchisement across the country using a diversity of tactics, including direct outreach strategies, policy advocacy, oversight, and litigation.ERIN CHLOPAK
Erin Chlopak joined CLC in August 2018, after spending nearly a decade working on a wide range of campaign finance issues in the Federal Election Commission’s Office of General Counsel. HOW THE ‘PRESIDENTIAL COALITION’ HAS CAPITALIZED ON ITS A group called the Presidential Coalition is capitalizing on its leader's ties to the President and misleading donors about where theirmoney is going.
VESILIND V. VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS In 2015, a group of individual voters in Virginia challenged the 2011 Virginia General Assembly maps as violating the state constitution, arguing that the map drawers subordinated compactness and prioritized partisan criteria in order to achieve self-interested politicalobjectives.
CLC LAWSUIT ENABLED 9,000 BALLOTS TO COUNT IN NEW YORK’S Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has achieved a victorious settlement in a lawsuit filed to prevent New York from erroneously rejecting voters’ mail ballots. Due to the changes in state law that this lawsuit inspired, the rejection rate for mail ballots fell from 14% in the 2018 general election to 4% in the 2020 general election, and nearly 9,000 people were able to address deficiencies in their THE VOTING RIGHTS INSTITUTE Helping voting rights attorneys, future attorneys and experts combat discriminatory voting practices across the country. When the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) was passed, it provided two major mechanisms to combat discriminatory voting rights practices in the United States. First, Section 2 of the law provided an affirmative right of action to challenge discriminatory voting practices in court. INSIDE THE CAMPAIGN-FINANCE ‘END RUN’ THAT EARNED GOP AN According to campaign finance records, more than $2.9 million was shuttled through the Wyoming Republican Party to the Trump campaign in the 2016 cycle. “It’s sort of a shell game that allows donors to write six-figure checks to support a party’s presidential candidate,” said Brendan Fischer, director of the federal reform program at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington D.C. “It FBI PROBES ALLEGATION THAT DEJOY USED ILLEGAL SCHEME TO The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against DeJoy after the allegations came out last year on the supposed straw donation scheme. “These are serious violations, and we are pleased that CLC’s research and complaint triggered the Department of Justice to investigate,” Brendan Fischer, CLC’s director of federal reform, said. NEW REPORT LAYS OUT VISION FOR DEMOCRACY REFORM IN NORTH In addition to expertise from national organizations, such as the Brennan Center for Justice, the Voters’ Rights to Know Project and the Campaign Legal Center, the report showcases local input from groups including Common Cause NC, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Disability Rights North Carolina, Democracy North Carolina and the North Carolina Black Alliance. ADVOCATES UNVEIL PRO-DEMOCRACY 'BLUEPRINT' FOR NORTH The report was spearheaded by the Institute for Southern Studies, a nonprofit media, research, and education center based in Durham, North Carolina, and publisher of Facing South; and North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections, a nonpartisan pro-democracy coalition. Contributing organizations include the Brennan Center for Justice, Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause North RI GOP CAUGHT UP IN 'TRUMP VICTORY' FUND MONEY GO-ROUND “These joint fundraising practices amount to little more than legalized money laundering, and allow wealthy donors to sidestep contribution limits and write six-figure checks for the benefit of presidential candidates and the national parties,” Brendan Fischer, director of federal reform at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said. Read the full article here. FALL 2022 PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIPS Position Summary CLC is seeking applicants for sponsored fellowships—including but not limited to Skadden, Equal Justice Works, school-funded public interest fellowships, and other public interest fellowships—to begin work in the fall of 2022. CLC is seeking applicants interested in all of our issue areas: campaign finance, voting rights, redistricting, and ethics. 'LEGALIZED MONEY LAUNDERING': TRUMP GROUP'S 'JOINT Brendan Fischer, director of federal reform at the Campaign Legal Center, is highly critical of joint fundraising practices. Fischer said, "These joint fundraising practices amount to little more than legalized money laundering, and allow wealthy donors to sidestep contribution limits and write six-figure checks for the benefit of presidential candidates and the national parties." STATE GOPS CAN’T EXPLAIN MILLIONS IN ‘TRUMP VICTORY’ CASH The issue has raised new questions about possible abuse of a longstanding campaign finance loophole that allows wealthy megadonors to cut massive checks. “These joint fundraising practices amount to little more than legalized money laundering, and allow wealthy donors to sidestep contribution limits and write six-figure checks for the benefit of presidential candidates and the CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS Big donors and special interests have come to dominate the financing of American elections. Candidates rely on donations from a handful of wealthy donors, while super PACs increasingly exert an outsized influence on our elections. As a result, elected officials are more responsive to large donors than to their constituents. Public financing is a promising way to amplify the voices of all RACE IN OUR POLITICS: A CATALOG OF CAMPAIGN MATERIALS After the election of President Obama in 2008, many commentators suggested that we might be entering a “post-racial” or “color-blind” era in our politics. While that prediction has always been fanciful, our political landscape in the past few years has made clear that race continues to play a prominent role in our politics, political coalitions, and national dialogue. SOCIAL MEDIA DAY OF ACTION: #OURFAIRMAPS, APRIL 30 Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is organizing a social media testimonial campaign on April 30—#OurFairMaps Day—to raise awareness about fair redistricting in 2021. Maps will be redrawn this year, and CLC wants to encourage people to get talking on social media on about why redistricting and Fair Maps matter to them. SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. COMPILING THE TRUTH: A RESOURCE TO REFUTE TRUMP’S “STOLEN According to a CNN article published on May 3, 2021, Cheney told an audience of donors, scholars and politicians, “We can’t embrace the notion the election is stolen. It’s a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy. We can’t whitewash what happened on January 6 or perpetuate Trump’s big lie. It is a threat to democracy.”. DESIGNING A TRANSPARENT AND ETHICAL REDISTRICTING PROCESS 2 A . What is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each state. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until reapportionment (defined below) is finished before it can divide CAN A STATE LEGISLATURE OVERTURN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Congress, in turn, has mandated by law that is the “Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President”—which falls on Nov. 3, 2020. For well over a century, the laws in every state have provided for their state’s electors to be chosen through a popular election. CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. RACE IN OUR POLITICS: A CATALOG OF CAMPAIGN MATERIALS After the election of President Obama in 2008, many commentators suggested that we might be entering a “post-racial” or “color-blind” era in our politics. While that prediction has always been fanciful, our political landscape in the past few years has made clear that race continues to play a prominent role in our politics, political coalitions, and national dialogue. SOCIAL MEDIA DAY OF ACTION: #OURFAIRMAPS, APRIL 30 Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is organizing a social media testimonial campaign on April 30—#OurFairMaps Day—to raise awareness about fair redistricting in 2021. Maps will be redrawn this year, and CLC wants to encourage people to get talking on social media on about why redistricting and Fair Maps matter to them. PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS Big donors and special interests have come to dominate the financing of American elections. Candidates rely on donations from a handful of wealthy donors, while super PACs increasingly exert an outsized influence on our elections. As a result, elected officials are more responsive to large donors than to their constituents. Public financing is a promising way to amplify the voices of all SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. COMPILING THE TRUTH: A RESOURCE TO REFUTE TRUMP’S “STOLEN According to a CNN article published on May 3, 2021, Cheney told an audience of donors, scholars and politicians, “We can’t embrace the notion the election is stolen. It’s a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy. We can’t whitewash what happened on January 6 or perpetuate Trump’s big lie. It is a threat to democracy.”. CAN A STATE LEGISLATURE OVERTURN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Congress, in turn, has mandated by law that is the “Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President”—which falls on Nov. 3, 2020. For well over a century, the laws in every state have provided for their state’s electors to be chosen through a popular election. ‘A CALL FOR AMERICAN RENEWAL’: A MANIFESTO FROM 150 In the wake of Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) ouster from GOP House leadership, this statement of principles, organized by Evan McMullin and Miles Taylor and signed by 150 prominent conservatives, announces a new political movement dedicated “to our founding ideals” and “a rebirth of the American cause.” Signed: Thomas Hill; Thomas E. Petri; Tim Boyle; Tom Campbell; Tom Coleman; Tom Ridge CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another.CASES & ACTIONS
Through litigation, policy analysis and public education, CLC works to protect and strengthen the U.S. democratic process across all levels of government. CLC's lawyers litigate cases across the nation protecting voting rights, fighting unconstitutional gerrymandering and defending against attacks on campaign finance and disclosure laws. RACE IN OUR POLITICS: A CATALOG OF CAMPAIGN MATERIALS After the election of President Obama in 2008, many commentators suggested that we might be entering a “post-racial” or “color-blind” era in our politics. While that prediction has always been fanciful, our political landscape in the past few years has made clear that race continues to play a prominent role in our politics, political coalitions, and national dialogue.CONFORTI V HANLON
About This Case. New Jersey is the only state in the nation that uses a bracketing system for its ballot design in primary elections: it organizes groupings of candidates in a column or row, rather than listing the office sought followed by a list of each candidate in thatrace.
STATE GOPS CAN’T EXPLAIN MILLIONS IN ‘TRUMP VICTORY’ CASH The issue has raised new questions about possible abuse of a longstanding campaign finance loophole that allows wealthy megadonors to cut massive checks. “These joint fundraising practices amount to little more than legalized money laundering, and allow wealthy donors to sidestep contribution limits and write six-figure checks for the benefit of presidential candidates and the FBI INVESTIGATES POSTMASTER GENERAL LOUIS DEJOY FOR “It’s what’s known in the campaign universe as a straw donor scheme. It’s illegal under North Carolina law if it is done on behalf of a state candidate, and it is illegal under federal law if it is done on behalf of a federal candidate,” said Amy Gardner, a reporter for The Washington Post. “We also know from research done by the Campaign Legal Center that there are very similar ADVOCATES UNVEIL PRO-DEMOCRACY 'BLUEPRINT' FOR NORTH The report was spearheaded by the Institute for Southern Studies, a nonprofit media, research, and education center based in Durham, North Carolina, and publisher of Facing South; and North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections, a nonpartisan pro-democracy coalition. Contributing organizations include the Brennan Center for Justice, Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause North INSIDE THE CAMPAIGN-FINANCE ‘END RUN’ THAT EARNED GOP AN According to campaign finance records, more than $2.9 million was shuttled through the Wyoming Republican Party to the Trump campaign in the 2016 cycle. “It’s sort of a shell game that allows donors to write six-figure checks to support a party’s presidential candidate,” said Brendan Fischer, director of the federal reform program at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington D.C. FALL 2022 PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIPS Position Summary CLC is seeking applicants for sponsored fellowships—including but not limited to Skadden, Equal Justice Works, school-funded public interest fellowships, and other public interest fellowships—to begin work in the fall of 2022. CLC is seeking applicants interested in all of our issue areas: campaign finance, voting rights, redistricting, and ethics. NJ NEEDS TO CHANGE ITS WEIRD, 'BIASED' PRIMARY BALLOTS The Newark-based New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and Campaign Legal Center, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and Salvation and Social Justice, filed an amicus curiae brief in Conforti v. Hanlon. Because candidates on the line are most often incumbents or party powerhouses – who in New Jersey are overwhelmingly white despite the state's 45 percent population THE BIDEN ADMIN LAWYER WHO SITS ATOP THE WHITE HOUSE RICH In her ethics agreement provided by the Biden transition team, Vanita Gupta wrote that she would retain her financial interests in those companies but would resign from her position as co-trustee of her family trust. Gupta’s plan to recuse herself from matters involving the financial interests of her family and herself is typically required by conflict of interest laws, said Delaney Marsco CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS Big donors and special interests have come to dominate the financing of American elections. Candidates rely on donations from a handful of wealthy donors, while super PACs increasingly exert an outsized influence on our elections. As a result, elected officials are more responsive to large donors than to their constituents. Public financing is a promising way to amplify the voices of all RACE IN OUR POLITICS: A CATALOG OF CAMPAIGN MATERIALS After the election of President Obama in 2008, many commentators suggested that we might be entering a “post-racial” or “color-blind” era in our politics. While that prediction has always been fanciful, our political landscape in the past few years has made clear that race continues to play a prominent role in our politics, political coalitions, and national dialogue. SOCIAL MEDIA DAY OF ACTION: #OURFAIRMAPS, APRIL 30 Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is organizing a social media testimonial campaign on April 30—#OurFairMaps Day—to raise awareness about fair redistricting in 2021. Maps will be redrawn this year, and CLC wants to encourage people to get talking on social media on about why redistricting and Fair Maps matter to them. SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. COMPILING THE TRUTH: A RESOURCE TO REFUTE TRUMP’S “STOLEN According to a CNN article published on May 3, 2021, Cheney told an audience of donors, scholars and politicians, “We can’t embrace the notion the election is stolen. It’s a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy. We can’t whitewash what happened on January 6 or perpetuate Trump’s big lie. It is a threat to democracy.”. DESIGNING A TRANSPARENT AND ETHICAL REDISTRICTING PROCESS 2 A . What is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each state. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until reapportionment (defined below) is finished before it can divide CAN A STATE LEGISLATURE OVERTURN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Congress, in turn, has mandated by law that is the “Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President”—which falls on Nov. 3, 2020. For well over a century, the laws in every state have provided for their state’s electors to be chosen through a popular election. CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS Big donors and special interests have come to dominate the financing of American elections. Candidates rely on donations from a handful of wealthy donors, while super PACs increasingly exert an outsized influence on our elections. As a result, elected officials are more responsive to large donors than to their constituents. Public financing is a promising way to amplify the voices of all RACE IN OUR POLITICS: A CATALOG OF CAMPAIGN MATERIALS After the election of President Obama in 2008, many commentators suggested that we might be entering a “post-racial” or “color-blind” era in our politics. While that prediction has always been fanciful, our political landscape in the past few years has made clear that race continues to play a prominent role in our politics, political coalitions, and national dialogue. SOCIAL MEDIA DAY OF ACTION: #OURFAIRMAPS, APRIL 30 Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is organizing a social media testimonial campaign on April 30—#OurFairMaps Day—to raise awareness about fair redistricting in 2021. Maps will be redrawn this year, and CLC wants to encourage people to get talking on social media on about why redistricting and Fair Maps matter to them. SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. COMPILING THE TRUTH: A RESOURCE TO REFUTE TRUMP’S “STOLEN According to a CNN article published on May 3, 2021, Cheney told an audience of donors, scholars and politicians, “We can’t embrace the notion the election is stolen. It’s a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy. We can’t whitewash what happened on January 6 or perpetuate Trump’s big lie. It is a threat to democracy.”. DESIGNING A TRANSPARENT AND ETHICAL REDISTRICTING PROCESS 2 A . What is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each state. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until reapportionment (defined below) is finished before it can divide CAN A STATE LEGISLATURE OVERTURN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Congress, in turn, has mandated by law that is the “Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President”—which falls on Nov. 3, 2020. For well over a century, the laws in every state have provided for their state’s electors to be chosen through a popular election. CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another.CASES & ACTIONS
Through litigation, policy analysis and public education, CLC works to protect and strengthen the U.S. democratic process across all levels of government. CLC's lawyers litigate cases across the nation protecting voting rights, fighting unconstitutional gerrymandering and defending against attacks on campaign finance and disclosure laws. RACE IN OUR POLITICS: A CATALOG OF CAMPAIGN MATERIALS After the election of President Obama in 2008, many commentators suggested that we might be entering a “post-racial” or “color-blind” era in our politics. While that prediction has always been fanciful, our political landscape in the past few years has made clear that race continues to play a prominent role in our politics, political coalitions, and national dialogue.CONFORTI V HANLON
About This Case. New Jersey is the only state in the nation that uses a bracketing system for its ballot design in primary elections: it organizes groupings of candidates in a column or row, rather than listing the office sought followed by a list of each candidate in thatrace.
STATE GOPS CAN’T EXPLAIN MILLIONS IN ‘TRUMP VICTORY’ CASH The issue has raised new questions about possible abuse of a longstanding campaign finance loophole that allows wealthy megadonors to cut massive checks. “These joint fundraising practices amount to little more than legalized money laundering, and allow wealthy donors to sidestep contribution limits and write six-figure checks for the benefit of presidential candidates and the FBI INVESTIGATES POSTMASTER GENERAL LOUIS DEJOY FOR “It’s what’s known in the campaign universe as a straw donor scheme. It’s illegal under North Carolina law if it is done on behalf of a state candidate, and it is illegal under federal law if it is done on behalf of a federal candidate,” said Amy Gardner, a reporter for The Washington Post. “We also know from research done by the Campaign Legal Center that there are very similar ADVOCATES UNVEIL PRO-DEMOCRACY 'BLUEPRINT' FOR NORTH The report was spearheaded by the Institute for Southern Studies, a nonprofit media, research, and education center based in Durham, North Carolina, and publisher of Facing South; and North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections, a nonpartisan pro-democracy coalition. Contributing organizations include the Brennan Center for Justice, Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause North INSIDE THE CAMPAIGN-FINANCE ‘END RUN’ THAT EARNED GOP AN According to campaign finance records, more than $2.9 million was shuttled through the Wyoming Republican Party to the Trump campaign in the 2016 cycle. “It’s sort of a shell game that allows donors to write six-figure checks to support a party’s presidential candidate,” said Brendan Fischer, director of the federal reform program at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington D.C. FALL 2022 PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIPS Position Summary CLC is seeking applicants for sponsored fellowships—including but not limited to Skadden, Equal Justice Works, school-funded public interest fellowships, and other public interest fellowships—to begin work in the fall of 2022. CLC is seeking applicants interested in all of our issue areas: campaign finance, voting rights, redistricting, and ethics. NJ NEEDS TO CHANGE ITS WEIRD, 'BIASED' PRIMARY BALLOTS The Newark-based New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and Campaign Legal Center, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and Salvation and Social Justice, filed an amicus curiae brief in Conforti v. Hanlon. Because candidates on the line are most often incumbents or party powerhouses – who in New Jersey are overwhelmingly white despite the state's 45 percent population THE BIDEN ADMIN LAWYER WHO SITS ATOP THE WHITE HOUSE RICH In her ethics agreement provided by the Biden transition team, Vanita Gupta wrote that she would retain her financial interests in those companies but would resign from her position as co-trustee of her family trust. Gupta’s plan to recuse herself from matters involving the financial interests of her family and herself is typically required by conflict of interest laws, said Delaney Marsco CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. DESIGNING A TRANSPARENT AND ETHICAL REDISTRICTING PROCESS 2 A . What is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each state. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until reapportionment (defined below) is finished before it can divide CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. HOW WOULD H.R. 1 IMPROVE ACCESS TO VOTING? Automatic voter registration (AVR), a key component of the For the People Act, would transform and modernize our current registration systems. This bold, paradigm-shifting approach would add tens of millions of voters to the rolls, cost less, and bolster security and accuracy. H.R. 1 encourages the use of the Electronic RegistrationInformation
EIGHT WAYS RANKED CHOICE VOTING CAN IMPROVE VOTING AND A traditional plurality voting system incentivizes candidates to engage in negative campaign tactics. Ranked choice voting removes incentives for negative campaigning and increases civility among candidates, because it fosters more choice, more competition, and a greater need for cooperation. 2. Ranked choice voting is moremajoritarian and
DANA PAIKOWSKY
Dana Paikowsky is an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Arnold & Porter Foundation. Her fellowship focuses on removing barriers to the ballot box for incarcerated eligible voters. Dana is a nationally recognized expert on incarcerated voting. She works to combat jail-based disenfranchisement across the country using adiversity of
ERIN CHLOPAK
Erin Chlopak joined CLC in August 2018, after spending nearly a decade working on a wide range of campaign finance issues in the Federal Election Commission’s Office of General Counsel. Her areas of focus include CLC’s appellate and district court litigation and its Federal Reform and State & Local Reform programs. From 2017 to 2018,Erin
DESIGNING INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS 3 II. REDISTRICTING, GERRYMANDERING, AND INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS What Is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each jurisdiction. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. DESIGNING A TRANSPARENT AND ETHICAL REDISTRICTING PROCESS 2 A . What is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each state. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until reapportionment (defined below) is finished before it can divide CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. HOW WOULD H.R. 1 IMPROVE ACCESS TO VOTING? Automatic voter registration (AVR), a key component of the For the People Act, would transform and modernize our current registration systems. This bold, paradigm-shifting approach would add tens of millions of voters to the rolls, cost less, and bolster security and accuracy. H.R. 1 encourages the use of the Electronic RegistrationInformation
EIGHT WAYS RANKED CHOICE VOTING CAN IMPROVE VOTING AND A traditional plurality voting system incentivizes candidates to engage in negative campaign tactics. Ranked choice voting removes incentives for negative campaigning and increases civility among candidates, because it fosters more choice, more competition, and a greater need for cooperation. 2. Ranked choice voting is moremajoritarian and
DANA PAIKOWSKY
Dana Paikowsky is an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Arnold & Porter Foundation. Her fellowship focuses on removing barriers to the ballot box for incarcerated eligible voters. Dana is a nationally recognized expert on incarcerated voting. She works to combat jail-based disenfranchisement across the country using adiversity of
ERIN CHLOPAK
Erin Chlopak joined CLC in August 2018, after spending nearly a decade working on a wide range of campaign finance issues in the Federal Election Commission’s Office of General Counsel. Her areas of focus include CLC’s appellate and district court litigation and its Federal Reform and State & Local Reform programs. From 2017 to 2018,Erin
DESIGNING INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS 3 II. REDISTRICTING, GERRYMANDERING, AND INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS What Is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each jurisdiction. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. ADVOCATES UNVEIL PRO-DEMOCRACY 'BLUEPRINT' FOR NORTH The report was spearheaded by the Institute for Southern Studies, a nonprofit media, research, and education center based in Durham, North Carolina, and publisher of Facing South; and North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections, a nonpartisan pro-democracy coalition. Contributing organizations include the Brennan Center for Justice, Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause North FALL 2022 PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIPS Position Summary CLC is seeking applicants for sponsored fellowships—including but not limited to Skadden, Equal Justice Works, school-funded public interest fellowships, and other public interest fellowships—to begin work in the fall of 2022. CLC is seeking applicants interested in all of our issue areas: campaign finance, voting rights, redistricting, and ethics. STATE GOPS CAN’T EXPLAIN MILLIONS IN ‘TRUMP VICTORY’ CASH The issue has raised new questions about possible abuse of a longstanding campaign finance loophole that allows wealthy megadonors to cut massive checks. “These joint fundraising practices amount to little more than legalized money laundering, and allow wealthy donors to sidestep contribution limits and write six-figure checks for the benefit of presidential candidates and the FBI INVESTIGATES POSTMASTER GENERAL LOUIS DEJOY FOR “It’s what’s known in the campaign universe as a straw donor scheme. It’s illegal under North Carolina law if it is done on behalf of a state candidate, and it is illegal under federal law if it is done on behalf of a federal candidate,” said Amy Gardner, a reporter for The Washington Post. “We also know from research done by the Campaign Legal Center that there are very similar INSIDE THE CAMPAIGN-FINANCE ‘END RUN’ THAT EARNED GOP AN According to campaign finance records, more than $2.9 million was shuttled through the Wyoming Republican Party to the Trump campaign in the 2016 cycle. “It’s sort of a shell game that allows donors to write six-figure checks to support a party’s presidential candidate,” said Brendan Fischer, director of the federal reform program at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington D.C. “ItSIMONE LEEPER
Simone joined CLC as Legal Counsel, Redistricting in December 2020. Prior to her position as Legal Counsel, Simone was a Legal Fellow at CLC. She has been involved in redistricting and voting rights cases at both the trial and appellate level. Simone represents the plaintiffsin Holloway v.
FIRSTENERGY DEFENDS ITS ROLE IN $61 MILLION BRIBERY SCHEME Patrick Llewellyn, director of state campaign finance at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said that Alaska’s Ballot Measure 2 is a good example of legislation that enables voters to know who is spending money to influence state elections. “Identifying the true source of big election spending ensures that wealthy special interests cannot hide behind shell corporations, super PACs, and NJ NEEDS TO CHANGE ITS WEIRD, 'BIASED' PRIMARY BALLOTS The Newark-based New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and Campaign Legal Center, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and Salvation and Social Justice, filed an amicus curiae brief in Conforti v. Hanlon. Because candidates on the line are most often incumbents or party powerhouses – who in New Jersey are overwhelmingly white despite the state's 45 percent population THE BIDEN ADMIN LAWYER WHO SITS ATOP THE WHITE HOUSE RICH In her ethics agreement provided by the Biden transition team, Vanita Gupta wrote that she would retain her financial interests in those companies but would resign from her position as co-trustee of her family trust. Gupta’s plan to recuse herself from matters involving the financial interests of her family and herself is typically required by conflict of interest laws, said Delaney Marsco CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. DESIGNING A TRANSPARENT AND ETHICAL REDISTRICTING PROCESS 2 A . What is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each state. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until reapportionment (defined below) is finished before it can divide CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. EIGHT WAYS RANKED CHOICE VOTING CAN IMPROVE VOTING AND A traditional plurality voting system incentivizes candidates to engage in negative campaign tactics. Ranked choice voting removes incentives for negative campaigning and increases civility among candidates, because it fosters more choice, more competition, and a greater need for cooperation. 2. Ranked choice voting is moremajoritarian and
HOW WOULD H.R. 1 IMPROVE ACCESS TO VOTING? Automatic voter registration (AVR), a key component of the For the People Act, would transform and modernize our current registration systems. This bold, paradigm-shifting approach would add tens of millions of voters to the rolls, cost less, and bolster security and accuracy. H.R. 1 encourages the use of the Electronic RegistrationInformation
DANA PAIKOWSKY
Dana Paikowsky is an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Arnold & Porter Foundation. Her fellowship focuses on removing barriers to the ballot box for incarcerated eligible voters. Dana is a nationally recognized expert on incarcerated voting. She works to combat jail-based disenfranchisement across the country using adiversity of
HOW THE ‘PRESIDENTIAL COALITION’ HAS CAPITALIZED ON ITS A group called the Presidential Coalition is capitalizing on its leader's ties to the President and misleading donors about where theirmoney is going.
DESIGNING INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS 3 II. REDISTRICTING, GERRYMANDERING, AND INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS What Is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each jurisdiction. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day. DESIGNING A TRANSPARENT AND ETHICAL REDISTRICTING PROCESS 2 A . What is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each state. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until reapportionment (defined below) is finished before it can divide CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMEN CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. EIGHT WAYS RANKED CHOICE VOTING CAN IMPROVE VOTING AND A traditional plurality voting system incentivizes candidates to engage in negative campaign tactics. Ranked choice voting removes incentives for negative campaigning and increases civility among candidates, because it fosters more choice, more competition, and a greater need for cooperation. 2. Ranked choice voting is moremajoritarian and
HOW WOULD H.R. 1 IMPROVE ACCESS TO VOTING? Automatic voter registration (AVR), a key component of the For the People Act, would transform and modernize our current registration systems. This bold, paradigm-shifting approach would add tens of millions of voters to the rolls, cost less, and bolster security and accuracy. H.R. 1 encourages the use of the Electronic RegistrationInformation
DANA PAIKOWSKY
Dana Paikowsky is an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Arnold & Porter Foundation. Her fellowship focuses on removing barriers to the ballot box for incarcerated eligible voters. Dana is a nationally recognized expert on incarcerated voting. She works to combat jail-based disenfranchisement across the country using adiversity of
HOW THE ‘PRESIDENTIAL COALITION’ HAS CAPITALIZED ON ITS A group called the Presidential Coalition is capitalizing on its leader's ties to the President and misleading donors about where theirmoney is going.
DESIGNING INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS 3 II. REDISTRICTING, GERRYMANDERING, AND INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS What Is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each jurisdiction. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until THE VOTING RIGHTS INSTITUTE Helping voting rights attorneys, future attorneys and experts combat discriminatory voting practices across the country. When the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) was passed, it provided two major mechanisms to combat discriminatory voting rights practices in the United States. First, Section 2 of the law provided an affirmative right of action to challenge discriminatory voting practices in court. FBI INVESTIGATES POSTMASTER GENERAL LOUIS DEJOY FOR “It’s what’s known in the campaign universe as a straw donor scheme. It’s illegal under North Carolina law if it is done on behalf of a state candidate, and it is illegal under federal law if it is done on behalf of a federal candidate,” said Amy Gardner, a reporter for The Washington Post. “We also know from research done by the Campaign Legal Center that there are very similar FBI INVESTIGATING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TIED TO In September, the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that DeJoy's former employees and family members gave more than $150,000 to the same candidates or committees between 2015 and 2018. "These are serious violations, and we are pleased that CLC's research and complaint triggered the Department of Justice to investigate," POLITICIANS CAN RAISE UNLIMITED MONEY TO REPAY THEMSELVES “The only thing Senator Cruz’s lawsuit achieved was to make it easier for special interests to put money directly into politicians’ pockets,” said Adav Noti, a senior director at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. “There’s no other action or principle at issue in the case; it’s purely about candidates hitting donors up for money that candidates can then put in FBI INVESTIGATING POSTMASTER GENERAL LOUIS DEJOY IN In the wake of The Post’s report, the Campaign Legal Center, an advocacy organization, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that suspicious donation activity continued after New Breed’s acquisition. Between 2015 and 2018, the group alleged, campaign finance records showed “several instances of XPO employees contributing to the same candidate or committeeSIMONE LEEPER
Simone joined CLC as Legal Counsel, Redistricting in December 2020. Prior to her position as Legal Counsel, Simone was a Legal Fellow at CLC. She has been involved in redistricting and voting rights cases at both the trial and appellate level. Simone represents the plaintiffsin Holloway v.
THE BIDEN ADMIN LAWYER WHO SITS ATOP THE WHITE HOUSE RICH In her ethics agreement provided by the Biden transition team, Vanita Gupta wrote that she would retain her financial interests in those companies but would resign from her position as co-trustee of her family trust. Gupta’s plan to recuse herself from matters involving the financial interests of her family and herself is typically required by conflict of interest laws, said Delaney Marsco FEDERAL LAWSUIT CHALLENGES KANSAS’ NEW ADVANCE MAIL Paul Smith, vice president for litigation and strategy at the Campaign Legal Center, said Kansas’ attack on advance mail voting was unconstitutional. “Beyond just targeting voters, however, laws like HB 2332 specifically take aim at the ability of nonpartisan, public interest organizations to help people navigate confusing systems and encourage them to exercise their ability to vote by FIRSTENERGY DEFENDS ITS ROLE IN $61 MILLION BRIBERY SCHEME Patrick Llewellyn, director of state campaign finance at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said that Alaska’s Ballot Measure 2 is a good example of legislation that enables voters to know who is spending money to influence state elections. “Identifying the true source of big election spending ensures that wealthy special interests cannot hide behind shell corporations, super PACs, and NJ NEEDS TO CHANGE ITS WEIRD, 'BIASED' PRIMARY BALLOTS The Newark-based New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and Campaign Legal Center, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and Salvation and Social Justice, filed an amicus curiae brief in Conforti v. Hanlon. Because candidates on the line are most often incumbents or party powerhouses – who in New Jersey are overwhelmingly white despite the state's 45 percent population CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. WHO IS PAYING FOR TRUMP’S LAWSUITS AND RECOUNTS Who Is Paying for Trump’s Lawsuits and Recounts? The 2020 election cost a record-breaking $14 billion—but legal costs are continuing to pile up in the wake of Election Day, with the Trump campaign filing longshot lawsuits across the country and recounts planned in multiplestates.
CAN A STATE LEGISLATURE OVERTURN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Congress, in turn, has mandated by law that is the “Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President”—which falls on Nov. 3, 2020. For well over a century, the laws in every state have provided for their state’s electors to be chosen through a popular election.DANA PAIKOWSKY
Dana Paikowsky is an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Arnold & Porter Foundation. Her fellowship focuses on removing barriers to the ballot box for incarcerated eligible voters. Dana is a nationally recognized expert on incarcerated voting. She works to combat jail-based disenfranchisement across the country using adiversity of
DESIGNING A TRANSPARENT AND ETHICAL REDISTRICTING PROCESS 2 A . What is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each state. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until reapportionment (defined below) is finished before it can divideJAMES ESTES
James, a dynamic and results driven financial professional has over 15 years of non-profit accounting and financial management experience. He has directed the financial and accounting operations of non-profit corporations and their related entities; and served as a financial consultant to executive decision makers utilizing acumen in strategic financial planning and analysis, non-profitERIN CHLOPAK
Erin Chlopak joined CLC in August 2018, after spending nearly a decade working on a wide range of campaign finance issues in the Federal Election Commission’s Office of General Counsel. Her areas of focus include CLC’s appellate and district court litigation and its Federal Reform and State & Local Reform programs. From 2017 to 2018,Erin
CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMENNATIONAL SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERSSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS CONFERENCESOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS AWARDSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS EVENTSSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS MEMBERSHIPENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS OF CALIFORNIA CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. HOW THE ‘PRESIDENTIAL COALITION’ HAS CAPITALIZED ON ITSTHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION RATINGTHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION TAX DEDUCTIBLETHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION ADDRESSTHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION LLCTHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION SCAM A group called the Presidential Coalition is capitalizing on its leader's ties to the President and misleading donors about where theirmoney is going.
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTERTHE LATESTIMPACTCASES & ACTIONSCONTACT CLCMEDIACENTERGET UPDATES
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation. Four Americans and the League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond are suing the Public Interest Legal Foundation and its president, J. Christian Adams, for engaging in a multiyear campaign of voter intimidation in the state of Virginia. Updated April 13, 2021. Status Active.MEET CLC'S STAFF
Legal Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager. Kim Bright. Vice President, Operations & Finance. Christian Calderon-Fonseca. Administrative Assistant. Nathaniel Caspari. Operations Associate. Erin Chlopak. Director, Campaign Finance Strategy. WHO IS PAYING FOR TRUMP’S LAWSUITS AND RECOUNTS Who Is Paying for Trump’s Lawsuits and Recounts? The 2020 election cost a record-breaking $14 billion—but legal costs are continuing to pile up in the wake of Election Day, with the Trump campaign filing longshot lawsuits across the country and recounts planned in multiplestates.
CAN A STATE LEGISLATURE OVERTURN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Congress, in turn, has mandated by law that is the “Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President”—which falls on Nov. 3, 2020. For well over a century, the laws in every state have provided for their state’s electors to be chosen through a popular election.DANA PAIKOWSKY
Dana Paikowsky is an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Arnold & Porter Foundation. Her fellowship focuses on removing barriers to the ballot box for incarcerated eligible voters. Dana is a nationally recognized expert on incarcerated voting. She works to combat jail-based disenfranchisement across the country using adiversity of
DESIGNING A TRANSPARENT AND ETHICAL REDISTRICTING PROCESS 2 A . What is Redistricting? Redistricting is the process of redrawing the electoral districts within each state. For the U.S. House of Representatives, a state must wait until reapportionment (defined below) is finished before it can divideJAMES ESTES
James, a dynamic and results driven financial professional has over 15 years of non-profit accounting and financial management experience. He has directed the financial and accounting operations of non-profit corporations and their related entities; and served as a financial consultant to executive decision makers utilizing acumen in strategic financial planning and analysis, non-profitERIN CHLOPAK
Erin Chlopak joined CLC in August 2018, after spending nearly a decade working on a wide range of campaign finance issues in the Federal Election Commission’s Office of General Counsel. Her areas of focus include CLC’s appellate and district court litigation and its Federal Reform and State & Local Reform programs. From 2017 to 2018,Erin
CLC COMPLAINT TO FEC AGAINST SOCIETY OF YOUNG WOMENNATIONAL SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERSSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS CONFERENCESOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS AWARDSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS EVENTSSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS MEMBERSHIPENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS OF CALIFORNIA CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC,” which gave $150,000 to the super PAC 1820 PAC just five weeks after incorporating, violated the ban on making political contributions in the name of another. HOW THE ‘PRESIDENTIAL COALITION’ HAS CAPITALIZED ON ITSTHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION RATINGTHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION TAX DEDUCTIBLETHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION ADDRESSTHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION LLCTHE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION SCAM A group called the Presidential Coalition is capitalizing on its leader's ties to the President and misleading donors about where theirmoney is going.
THE VOTING RIGHTS INSTITUTE Helping voting rights attorneys, future attorneys and experts combat discriminatory voting practices across the country. When the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) was passed, it provided two major mechanisms to combat discriminatory voting rights practices in the United States. First, Section 2 of the law provided an affirmative right of action to challenge discriminatory voting practices in court. SIGNATURE MATCHING AND MAIL BALLOTS: SAFEGUARDS TO ENSURE 2. Sufficient Time to Cure. Voters must have time to fix ballot problems before election results are finalized. States should create sufficient time in two ways: (i) allowing election officials to begin processing and verifying mail ballots as they are received or at least five days before Election Day, and (ii) permitting voters to fix ballot issues for a maximum possible time after Election Day.CONFORTI V HANLON
About This Case. New Jersey is the only state in the nation that uses a bracketing system for its ballot design in primary elections: it organizes groupings of candidates in a column or row, rather than listing the office sought followed by a list of each candidate in thatrace.
PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS Big donors and special interests have come to dominate the financing of American elections. Candidates rely on donations from a handful of wealthy donors, while super PACs increasingly exert an outsized influence on our elections. As a result, elected officials are more responsive to large donors than to their constituents. Public financing is a promising way to amplify the voices of all FBI INVESTIGATING U.S. POSTMASTER DEJOY OVER CAMPAIGN The Campaign Legal Center, a Washington-based advocacy group, in a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission alleged a pattern by XPO workers like that reported to have occurred at New Breed. Campaign finance records show instances of XPO employees contributing to the same candidate or committee, during the same period of time, and often in similar amounts, the CampaignTREVOR POTTER
Trevor Potter is the founder and President of Campaign Legal Center. Image. He is a former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and was General Counsel to John McCain’s 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns, and an adviser to the drafters of the McCain-Feingold law. To many, he is perhaps best known for his recurring appearances on The FBI INVESTIGATING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TIED TO In September, the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that DeJoy's former employees and family members gave more than $150,000 to the same candidates or committees between 2015 and 2018. "These are serious violations, and we are pleased that CLC's research and complaint triggered the Department of Justice to investigate," NJ NEEDS TO CHANGE ITS WEIRD, 'BIASED' PRIMARY BALLOTS The Newark-based New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and Campaign Legal Center, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and Salvation and Social Justice, filed an amicus curiae brief in Conforti v. Hanlon. Because candidates on the line are most often incumbents or party powerhouses – who in New Jersey are overwhelmingly white despite the state's 45 percent population FBI INVESTIGATING POSTMASTER GENERAL LOUIS DEJOY IN In the wake of The Post’s report, the Campaign Legal Center, an advocacy organization, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that suspicious donation activity continued after New Breed’s acquisition. Between 2015 and 2018, the group alleged, campaign finance records showed “several instances of XPO employees contributing to the same candidate or committee ‘LINE TOO FAR’: NATIONAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT GROUPS SUE OVER Aseem Mulji, legal counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, said Kansas is unique in banning all activity from out-of-state organizations rather than simply dictating how that messaging should be delivered. Kansas, he said, had some of its most successful elections on record this year, supported by civic engagement groups that distributed ballot applications. Skip to main content Campaign Legal CenterMain Menu
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