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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.

Amicus Briefs

Corruption

Amicus: Court must block unconstitutional settlement in Trump’s $10 billion IRS lawsuit

The court should prevent an unlawful and collusive transfer of taxpayer funds from the US Treasury to Trump’s personal coffers.

Amicus Briefs

Democracy

CREW files amicus brief on behalf of bipartisan former state secretaries of state in appeal of elections EO decision

The First Circuit Court of Appeals should affirm the District Court of Massachusetts’s decision blocking a portion of President Trump’s executive order which attempts to exert federal control over elections.

Amicus Briefs

Corruption

CREW files First Circuit amicus brief supporting Harvard’s ability to host international scholars and students

The court should reject the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict Harvard from hosting international scholars and students.

Amicus Briefs

Transparency

CREW files amicus briefs in support of states’ refusal to turn over voter rolls to DOJ

The courts should dismiss the government’s lawsuits against states seeking to force them to turn over their voter rolls

Amicus Briefs

Money in Politics

CREW files SCOTUS amicus brief in support of coordinated expenditure limits for political party donations

Earmarking rules and disclosure laws cannot prevent all quid pro quo corruption that could occur through coordinated expenditures.

Amicus Briefs

Democracy

CREW files amicus brief urging SCOTUS to reject GEO Group’s claim to sovereign immunity

The Supreme Court should reject GEO Group’s call to expand sovereign immunity to all government contractors, according to an amicus brief filed by CREW.

Amicus Briefs

Money in Politics

CREW files amicus brief on behalf of Rep. Rosa DeLauro in foreign assistance funding freeze case

The Supreme Court should deny the Trump administration’s application for a partial stay of a district court injunction that ordered the administration to unfreeze foreign assistance funding appropriated by Congress.

Amicus Briefs

Corruption

CREW files historian amicus briefs in support of states’ efforts to block National Guard deployments

Given the lack of legal justification for the Trump administration’s federalization of the California National Guard, the Ninth Circuit should affirm the district court’s temporary restraining order and block Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles.

Amicus Briefs

Democracy

CREW files SCOTUS amicus brief on behalf of former secretaries of state on accuracy, reliability and security of mail-in voting

The Supreme Court should affirm the lower court’s decision to dismiss Rep. Mike Bost’s lawsuit challenging mail-in voting in Illinois.

Amicus Briefs

Policy & Reform

CREW files amicus briefs on behalf of former secretaries of state on election EO

CREW filed amicus briefs on behalf of a bipartisan group of former secretaries of state in two cases challenging President Trump’s executive order attempting to exert federal control over elections.

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

Amicus: Court must block unconstitutional settlement in Trump’s $10 billion IRS lawsuit

CREW files amicus brief on behalf of bipartisan former state secretaries of state in appeal of elections EO decision

CREW files First Circuit amicus brief supporting Harvard’s ability to host international scholars and students

CREW files amicus briefs in support of states’ refusal to turn over voter rolls to DOJ

CREW files SCOTUS amicus brief in support of coordinated expenditure limits for political party donations

CREW files amicus brief urging SCOTUS to reject GEO Group’s claim to sovereign immunity

CREW files amicus brief on behalf of Rep. Rosa DeLauro in foreign assistance funding freeze case

CREW files historian amicus briefs in support of states’ efforts to block National Guard deployments

CREW files SCOTUS amicus brief on behalf of former secretaries of state on accuracy, reliability and security of mail-in voting

CREW files amicus briefs on behalf of former secretaries of state on election EO

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