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

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Transparency

CREW sues ICE for private detention facility records

Rather than being eliminated with private prisons, privately owned immigration detention has expanded and continued to profit under the Biden administration.

Lawsuits

Transparency

CREW sues over missing Jan. 6 texts

Several government agencies apparently violated the Federal Records Act after failing to preserve now missing text messages from January 2021.

Lawsuits

Money in Politics

CREW sues FEC over American Action Network complaint

Groups that spend extensively on influencing federal elections must disclose their donors and the sources of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Lawsuits

Transparency

CREW sues Secret Service for records on deleted insurrection text messages

Secret Service texts from the insurrection and day before were deleted, raising concerns about a politicized cover-up scheme.

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Corruption

CREW sues DOJ for judicial misconduct complaint records

Judicial misconduct complaints should be public so that confidence in the judiciary can begin to be restored.

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.

CREW sues ICE for private detention facility records

CREW sues over missing Jan. 6 texts

CREW sues FEC over American Action Network complaint

CREW sues Secret Service for records on deleted insurrection text messages

CREW sues DOJ for judicial misconduct complaint records

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

CREW is suing to enforce Trump’s disqualification from office

CREW is suing to enforce Trump’s disqualification from office