Legal Actions - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Legal Complaints

Corruption

Congress must consider using 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause where warranted

CREW calls Congress’s attention to the ruling in the Couy Griffin case and outlines Congress’s role in enforcing the Disqualification Clause.

Legal Complaints

Ethics & Reform

CREW urges Judicial Conference to implement judicial ethics rules

The Judicial Conference should implement a judicial ban on owning individual securities and develop a strong Supreme Court code of conduct.

Legal Complaints

Ethics & Reform

Congress must pass strong bipartisan ban on Congressional stock ownership

Until Congress passes a comprehensive Congressional stock ban, Congress will continue to be mired in a crisis of institutional legitimacy.

Legal Complaints

Ethics & Reform

Apple and Google should ban Truth Social

Donald Trump’s Truth Social should not be available for download on Apple or Google’s online stores following an escalation of violent rhetoric on the platform.

Lawsuits

Transparency

CREW sues the DOJ on its failure to expedite Election Threats Task Force requests

Election workers deserve to know what DOJ’s Election Threats Task force is doing to address ongoing threats of violence to election workers.

Legal Complaints

Transparency

DOJ must widen its investigation into missing January 6th texts

Key January 6th texts from the Secret Service and top DHS and DOD officials were erased and DOJ needs to investigate.

Congress must consider using 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause where warranted

CREW urges Judicial Conference to implement judicial ethics rules

Congress must pass strong bipartisan ban on Congressional stock ownership

Apple and Google should ban Truth Social

CREW sues the DOJ on its failure to expedite Election Threats Task Force requests

DOJ must widen its investigation into missing January 6th texts

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