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

Letters

CREW, 17 other groups tell Congress: Pass the ETHICS Act and ban Congressional stock trading

The ETHICS Act is crucial in the fight to ensure that elected officials are acting in the best interests of the people they serve, not personal profit.

Legal Complaints

Justice Thomas must be investigated for additional undisclosed gifts

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas must be investigated for his failure to properly disclose a series of expensive travel gifts that he accepted from billionaire and political mega-donor Harlan Crow.

Letters

Georgia’s election certification amendment risks electoral chaos

The amendment seeks to define “election certification” in a manner that is contrary to settled Georgia law and would increase the risk of certification abuse and electoral chaos.

Legal Complaints

CREW files criminal bribery complaint on Trump meeting with oil and gas executives

The FBI and Department of Justice should investigate whether Donald Trump violated the law by promising political favors, if re-elected, to the oil and gas industry in exchange for $1 billion in campaign donations.

Lawsuits

Corruption

CREW sues DOJ for OLC records on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment

As the Department of Justice office charged with providing legal advice to the President and all executive branch agencies, the Office of Legal Counsel's views on the issue of disqualification under the 14th Amendment carry great weight.

Letters

Money in Politics

The FEC should allow campaign spending on security with strong guidelines

Allowing campaign expenditures for legitimate security needs, while establishing clear guidelines to prevent abuse and undue enrichment, is an important step towards rooting out political violence.

CREW, 17 other groups tell Congress: Pass the ETHICS Act and ban Congressional stock trading

Justice Thomas must be investigated for additional undisclosed gifts

Georgia’s election certification amendment risks electoral chaos

CREW files criminal bribery complaint on Trump meeting with oil and gas executives

CREW sues DOJ for OLC records on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment

The FEC should allow campaign spending on security with strong guidelines

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