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Legal Complaints

Corruption

CREW files IG complaint on military flyover of Kid Rock’s home

DOD IG should investigate DOD officials for using a military helicopter to fly over a local “No Kings” protest and the home of Kid Rock.

Legal Complaints

CREW files FEC complaint against dark money group National Interest Action Inc.

National Interest Action Inc. failed to register as a political committee despite spending $3,529,920 on independent expenditures in 2024.

Testimony

Corruption

Donald Sherman testifies on corruption and waste, fraud and abuse at the DHS

CREW President Donald Sherman testifies in a shadow hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security to explain how the Trump admin's actions have enabled corruption and prevented DHS from fulfilling its core mission.

Lawsuits

Transparency

CREW sues DHS for records on protestor surveillance

CREW is suing the DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Customs and Border Protection and ICE for failing to produce records on an expedited basis in response to CREW’s FOIA request seeking information about the Trump administration’s efforts to track and surveil protestors.

Letters

Transparency

DHS IG must investigate Trump ally getting ICE to detain the mother of his child

The DHS IG must investigate allegations that a longtime political ally of President Trump solicited and received assistance from ICE to take action to detain the mother of his child amidst a custody dispute.

Lawsuits

Corruption

CREW sues State Department and Secret Service for records on G20 summit at Trump Doral

Records may reveal how Trump's Doral resort was picked to host the G20 Summit and any procedures in place to avoid constitutional violations.

Testimony

Corruption

The Trump administration has opened the door to waste, fraud and abuse and put national security at risk

President Trump’s second term is marked by conflicts of interest and corruption that weaken the government’s ability to stop waste, fraud and abuse and put U.S. national security at risk.

Letters

Corruption

White House must reveal and resolve Jared Kushner’s financial conflicts of interest

Jared Kushner must file his legally required public financial disclosure report within 30 days of his appointment as Special Envoy for Peace.

Lawsuits

Transparency

CREW, Lawfare sue the Department of State for violating the Case Act

The State Department and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are failing to make international agreements publicly available in violation of the Case-Zablocki Act, leaving Americans in the dark about foreign deals being made on their behalf. Lawfare, a nonpartisan media organization represented by CREW, sued to compel the Trump administration to comply with the law.

Amicus Briefs

Transparency

CREW files amicus brief supporting California law on ICE agent identification

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should reject the Trump administration's efforts to block enforcement of the visible identification requirement in California’s No Vigilantes Act.

Amicus Briefs

Money in Politics

CREW submits amicus brief urging court to reject NRA’s appeal in Giffords v. NRA

The court should reject the NRA's appeal that the FEC failed to act in a series of complaints filed by Giffords against the NRA.

Legal Complaints

Corruption

CREW files IG complaints over Trump’s $10B lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury

Agency inspectors general must investigate the risks posed by Trump’s unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and the Treasury.

CREW files IG complaint on military flyover of Kid Rock’s home

CREW files FEC complaint against dark money group National Interest Action Inc.

Donald Sherman testifies on corruption and waste, fraud and abuse at the DHS

CREW sues DHS for records on protestor surveillance

DHS IG must investigate Trump ally getting ICE to detain the mother of his child

CREW sues State Department and Secret Service for records on G20 summit at Trump Doral

The Trump administration has opened the door to waste, fraud and abuse and put national security at risk

White House must reveal and resolve Jared Kushner’s financial conflicts of interest

CREW, Lawfare sue the Department of State for violating the Case Act

CREW files amicus brief supporting California law on ICE agent identification

CREW submits amicus brief urging court to reject NRA’s appeal in Giffords v. NRA

CREW files IG complaints over Trump’s $10B lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury

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