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Campaign Legal Center (CLC)
legal form	USC § 501 (c) (3)
founding	January 2002 in Washington, DC United States
founder	Trevor Potter
Seat	Washington, DC United States ( ⊙ coordinates: 38 ° 54 ′ 14.7 ″  N , 77 ° 1 ′ 53.5 ″  W )
Office	Campaign Legal Center 1101 14th St. NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005
motto	Advancing Democracy through Law
main emphasis	Control of the elections
Action space	United States
Chair	Paul M. Smith
Managing directors	Paul M. Smith (President)
sales	$ 4,901,437 (2016)
Website	CampaignLegal.org

The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization under USC § 501 (c) (3) that works to reduce the illegal influence of money in politics and to support unrestricted access to elections.

CLC supports strict enforcement of US campaign funding laws . CLC attorneys track and participate in a variety of actions across the country affecting the federal, state, and local campaign finance law.

CLC also directly represents citizens in the struggle for their right to vote and unhindered access to the election.

The CLC website allows users to follow Federal Election Commission (FEC) activities , campaign funding legislation, and good government issues such as lobbying , ethics, and reform redistribution. A blog offers expert opinions on these topics. CLC also supports the need for free media access for all candidates to encourage neutral reporting.

Trevor Potter, former Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission, is the founding president of the CLC. He was the principal advisor to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign (while on leave from CLC) and held that position during the McCain 2000 campaign. Potter is also a practicing attorney and Chairman of the Political Practice Group of the international law firm Caplin Drysdale. J. Gerald Hebert was previously CLC's Managing Director and Litigation Director, but is now Senior Director of Voting Rights and Redistribution. The previous political director is Meredith McGehee, formerly chief lobbyist for general affairs. Now he is the managing director of Issue One. Paul M. Smith joined the CLC in January 2017 as Vice President, Litigation and Strategy.

activities

In 2004, CLC represented complaints to the Federal Election Commission against groups such as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and America Coming Together ( ACT ) that sought to directly influence the Congressional election .

In 2006, the CLC testified before Congress to support the re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).

CLC criticized the use of charities founded by former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards . CLC complained that they were mainly used to influence the public for the 2008 presidential election .

The group filed an amicus curiae in the landmark Citizens United v. 2007 Federal Election Commission of the Supreme Court, unsuccessfully calling on the court not to delete a provision of McCain's fine gold (Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002) that is unlimited prevented political contributions to organizations that are not directly linked to federal candidates. The following year she again submitted a pleading to the Court of Justice on a regulation of the Reform Act for bipartisan campaigns of 2002, which raised the contribution limits when the candidates faced a self-financing opponent. The group endorsed the rule put down by the Court.

In 2010, the CLC, along with another monitoring group, Democracy 21, called on the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a tax-exempt welfare group led by Karl Rove .

The group filed an amicus letter in 2011 on behalf of eight public interest groups in support of the challenged provisions of the Arizona Clean Elections Act , the Citizens Clean Elections Act . After the court put down the rules, a spokesman for the group stated that the ruling " undermines the integrity of our elections ." Later that year, the CLC raised concerns to the FEC that Stephen Colbert's satirical Super PAC , "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow," had serious copycats exploiting the rules for politicians with television contracts. The organization's president, Trevor Potter, was Colbert's lawyer in setting up the PAC. In August, it called on the US Department of Justice to investigate the conduct of W Spann LLC .

The group advocated more legal restrictions on donating and lobbying campaigns during the 2012 presidential primaries .

CLC attorneys represented voters in Wisconsin on the Gill v. 2017 Supreme Court Whitford. CLC's Paul Smith heard the case in the Court on October 3, 2017.

In 2018, CLC launched a website for convicted delinquent citizens to claim their voting rights in all 50 states. That same year, CLC filed several complaints with the FEC alleging illegal coordination between the Trump campaign and the National Rifle Association . CLC's Potter so Appeared on Face the Natioand 60 CLCs Potter appeared in 2018 on Face the Nation and 60 Minutes to the possible violations of the campaign finance President Trump to discuss in connection with the hush money, the Michael Cohen at Stormy Daniels has paid. Before the elections in 2018 , the CLC lawyers representing the voters of Native Americans in a case in which the election ID Act of North Dakota has been questioned.

In late July 2020, CLC filed an 81-page complaint with the FEC against the Trump re-election campaign alleging pass-through companies hid nearly $ 170 million in campaign spending from the FEC.

credentials

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2. ^ Maggie Astor: North Dakota Voter ID Law Stands After Last-Ditch Lawsuit. In: nytimes.com. November 1, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 . 
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6. ^ Paul M. Smith. In: Campaign Legal Center. Retrieved August 1, 2020 . 
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20. ↑ Amy Howe: Gill v. Whitford - SCOTUSblog. In: scotusblog.com. April 27, 2017, accessed August 1, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Barrett Holmes Pitner: Millions of Felons Are Getting Their Votes Back. Now They're Learning To Cast Them. In: thedailybeast.com. August 12, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 . 
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24. ↑ Face The Nation: Lanny Davis, Trevor Potter, Kelsey Snell on YouTube , December 16, 2018
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26. ^ Maggie Astor: North Dakota Voter ID Law Stands After Last-Ditch Lawsuit. In: NYT . November 1, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 . 
27. ^ SV Date: Complaint: Trump Making Illegal Secret Payments, Including To His Own Family. In: huffpost.com. July 28, 2020, accessed on August 1, 2020 . 
28. ↑ Jonathan Easley: Watchdog alleges Trump campaign illegally concealed $ 170 million in spending. In: thehill.com. July 28, 2020, accessed on August 1, 2020 . 
29. ↑ watchdog accuses Trump campaign of illegally masking millions in spending. In: campaignlegal.org. July 28, 2020, accessed on August 1, 2020 . 
30. ↑ Nicole Sganga: CLC Files Complaint Against Trump Campaign for Hiding $ 170 Million in Spending from Donors and Voters. In: cbsnews.com. July 29, 2020, accessed on August 1, 2020 . 
31. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )