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Amicus Briefs

Election Laws And Voting Rights

CREW files amicus briefs on behalf of bipartisan former secretaries of state in appeals of voter rolls suit

The appeals court should affirm the district court’s decision to dismiss the DOJ's lawsuit against states for their refusal to turn over voter rolls.

Lawsuits

Election Laws And Voting Rights

Voting rights groups sue DOJ to block national voter surveil-and-purge database

Common Cause and four individuals sued the Trump Administration to block the DOJ from illegally stockpiling millions of Americans’ confidential voter data and creating a national voter database to surveil and purge voters.

Testimony

Accountability

Congress must prevent Commerce from using Gold Card funds to sidestep spending controls

Congress must prevent the Department of Commerce from using Trump Gold Card funds to sidestep spending controls. CREW’s testimony proposes bill and report language to ensure that those controls are maintained.

Legal Complaints

Executive Branch Ethics

CIGIE must investigate potential ethics violations by Labor IG D’Esposito

To ensure necessary oversight and accountability, the Integrity Committee must investigate whether D’Esposito violated ethics rules.

Lawsuits

Transparency

CREW sues the DOJ for records on Trump’s $230 million FTCA claim

CREW is suing DOJ for failing to produce records on FTCA claims in which Trump reportedly seeks $230 million in damages from the government.

Legal Complaints

Accountability

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

Money In Politics

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

Oversight

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

Accountability

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

Transparency

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.

CREW files amicus briefs on behalf of bipartisan former secretaries of state in appeals of voter rolls suit

Voting rights groups sue DOJ to block national voter surveil-and-purge database

Congress must prevent Commerce from using Gold Card funds to sidestep spending controls

CIGIE must investigate potential ethics violations by Labor IG D’Esposito

CREW sues the DOJ for records on Trump’s $230 million FTCA claim

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

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