campaign finance law

Special Counsel Jack Smith could charge Donald Trump with federal wire fraud for his fundraising off of the Big Lie.

Part of Just Security’s work on accountability and election law. Originally published on March 29, 2023; updated version published on May 24, 2023. On April 4, 2023, Manhattan…

"While there are other legal hurdles for the Manhattan DA to cross in the indictment of the former president, this element of the relevant offenses poses no obstacle..."

The alleged indictment raises important questions about efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election and the rule of law. 

Surreptitious third-party payments are routinely prosecuted as campaign finance violations in New York and nationally under various statutes.

Analyzing DA Bragg's options for felony charges, including campaign finance crimes and conspiracy to prevent an election, and Trump's defenses.

A criminal investigation of former president Donald Trump now being restarted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and also discussed in a new book by one of his former…

"Many of the assertions in the book, rather than support Pomerantz's resignation letter, cast a very different impression of his prior claims."

Attacks on U.S. elections will become a dangerous new normal if Congress does not make it a crime.

With the election only 26 days away, the cop on the campaign corruption beat, the Federal Election Commission (FEC), is missing.

This week Forbes broke the story that Jared Kushner, “de facto chief” of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, has been speaking “regularly,” “almost daily,”…

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse writes that there is a dual problem with the Supreme Court: not only the web of special-interest, secret donor influence surrounding it; but an extraordinary…