Americans United for Separation of Church and State asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate Grace Community Church, a Houston church whose pastor issued a letter of endorsement for U.S. House of Representatives candidate Shelley Sekula Gibbs. The pastor's endorsement letter identifies himself as senior pastor of Grace Community Church. "I have pastured in the 22nd District for 24 years. It is not often I endorse a candidate for office. I want to know if they represent my values. I have thoroughly discussed the issues of life, marriage and family with Shelley over the years."

The Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 have filed a friend of the court brief, charging that the SpeechNow.org lawsuit "is about whether wealthy donors can each contribute hundreds of thousands, or indeed, millions of dollars to sophisticated committees often run by Washington political operatives, closely associated with parties and candidates, in order to finance campaign advocacy . . .

Last week, members of the House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee held hearings to discuss the state of U.S. election administration, particularly the role of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The EAC was created as a bipartisan commission in 2002 with three primary goals: to develop guidance to meet the requirements of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), to adopt voluntary voting system guidelines, and to serve as a national clearinghouse of information about election administration. It was not intended to be a regulatory agency.

Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21 and Public Citizen filed an amicus brief in support of the Justice Department to defend a member disclosure requirement in the new lobbying disclosure law. National Association of Manufacturers v. Taylor challenges Section 207 of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA).