What you need to know about everything that matters this cycle

The Legal Center has 10 years' experience defending and enforcing campaign finance, election and ethics laws.  There’s a lot to explain and keep straight given recent developments with Super PACs, changing laws, Citizens United, etc.   We think our reports, papers, and other documents will help you understand the different elements at play this cycle and how to make sense of it all.

Comedian Stephen Colbert Helps Dedicate the Ham Rove Memorial Conference Room at the Campaign Legal Center

To read the press release about the dedication, click here.

To watch Legal Center president Trevor Potter's numerous appearances on The Colbert Report, click here.

(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

"Big Sky, Big Money" - to watch Trevor Potter in the PBS Frontline investigative report, click here.

Overview of Court Challenges to Campaign Finance & Disclosure Laws Nationwide

The rush of litigation challenging campaign finance and disclosure laws continues unabated more than two years after the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision.  In addition to these challenges, the upcoming election has spurred a new wave of litigation over state voter purges and controversial voter photo identification laws.  For your reference, the Campaign Legal Center has updated a summary document of recent cases of interest at the federal, state and municipal level. The summary provides a brief description of pending and recently decided cases, and the Legal Center’s involvement in those cases.

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Watchdog Groups Urge House Committee to Investigate Failure of IRS to Enforce the Tax Laws  

In a letter sent today to the House Ways and Means Committee, the Campaign Legal Center joined Democracy 21 in urging the Committee to examine the failure of the IRS to properly enforce the tax laws against groups improperly claiming to be “social welfare” organizations under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code. The nonprofit tax status has been widely abused by groups that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the last two election cycles in an attempt to elect or defeat candidates for federal office.

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