Today, Common Cause filed complaints with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging reason to believe that solicitations for campaign contributions to former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s Senate campaign distributed by We Build the Wall, Inc. violated multiple campaign finance laws. The email solicitation appears to violate the ban on corporate contributions to a federal candidate and the prohibition on candidates spending “soft money” in connection with their election. The email...

Hôm nay, Common Cause kêu gọi Hạ viện Hoa Kỳ ngay lập tức bắt đầu một cuộc điều tra luận tội để đáp trả việc Nhà Trắng không hợp tác và cản trở mọi nỗ lực điều tra hành vi phạm tội hoặc sai trái tiềm ẩn trong quá khứ và hiện tại của Tổng thống Trump hoặc các thành viên trong chính quyền của ông. Trong một báo cáo chi tiết mới sẽ được gửi đến mọi thành viên của Hạ viện, cơ quan giám sát chính phủ phi đảng phái này đưa ra trường hợp và nhấn mạnh sự cần thiết của cuộc điều tra luận tội. 

Today, Common Cause is launching a new effort to ensure voters’ right to know where presidential candidates stand on practical solutions to the challenges facing our democracy. The Our Democracy 2020 campaign will focus getting every presidential candidate in the Democratic and Republican primaries to respond to a 17-question survey and inject the high priority conversation on the need for democracy reform in the presidential campaign. 

“Today’s passage of the bipartisan SAFE Act in the House is a large critically important step toward safeguarding our elections. It is now up to the Senate to pass strong election security legislation. Our election systems have been breached by a hostile foreign power. Those attacks continue to this day and they will not stop during the 2020 elections, so we must be ready."

Common Cause is urging every member of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote “yes” on the Securing America’s Federal Elections (SAFE) Act (HR 2722) when it goes to a floor vote later this week. A Monday letter to Members emphasized that the critical legislation will help ensure that states and localities get the necessary resources and take key steps to make our election infrastructure resilient in the face of the ongoing attacks by hostile nation state actors.

Today, ten states attorneys general led by New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit to block the proposed T-Mobile-Sprint merger. The lawsuit argues that if approved, the merger would lead to higher prices, fewer choices, and less innovation for consumers. New York and California were joined in the lawsuit by Colorado, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, Virginia, and Wisconsin

Today marks the one year anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality. Since the repeal, broadband service providers have been free to block, throttle, or create fast lanes and slow lanes by charging websites extra fees to prioritize their content. Since the repeal, there’s been evidence of broadband service providers throttling speeds, degrading video quality, and creating service plans that favor their own services over competitors.

Today, Common Cause called for immediate oversight hearings on reports that the Trump Administration is shifting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff from its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to the border with Mexico. In letters to the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Common Cause urged Congress to ensure that DHS and all government agencies continue to devote necessary staff and resources to protect our election infrastructure in the wake of...

Hôm nay, Common Cause Indiana và một số cử tri đã đăng ký tại Quận Saint Joseph – Mary Frederick, John Justin Collier, William Marks Jr. và Minnie Lee Clark – đã đệ đơn kiện Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao Connie Lawson và các thành viên của Hội đồng Bầu cử Quận St. Joseph vì đã từ chối thẳng thừng các lá phiếu vắng mặt của họ với lý do chữ ký không khớp, vi phạm quy trình hợp pháp và quyền được bảo vệ bình đẳng của họ theo hiến pháp liên bang.