Protecting Democracy [1]

American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms.

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ICE Detention Center Contractors Host a Hotbed of Legal Problems, Regulatory Violations and Deadly Conditions

Strengthening State Laws to Protect Elections & State Public Officials
Making Government Work [2]

The U.S. government should work for the public, not corporations or industry. It should safeguard consumers, workers and the environment, and be funded well enough to do so. The budget process must not be obstructed by partisanship.

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It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity
Consumer & Worker Safeguards [3]

Every day, Big Banks, Big Tech, and their armies of corporate lobbyists threaten our economy, our financial security, and our democracy – sacrificing Main Street Americans and our families on the altar of corporate profits. Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government.

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Corporate Crime Enforcement Plummets in Trump’s First Year, Rewards Top Donors

One in Four Federal Lobbyists Now Work on AI
Safe & Affordable Drugs & Devices [4]

Prescription drugs are unaffordable and new drugs and devices often are approved without being proven safe and effective. Public Citizen challenges Big Pharma, device manufacturers and federal regulators to make drugs and medical devices safe, effective and accessible to all.

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Health Care [5]

Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials.

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Report: The Trump Administration’s Stop-Work Order and Funding Freeze likely affected 32 USAID-Funded Clinical Trials

Public Citizen Petitions OSHA and CMS to Implement Work-Hour Regulations for Resident Physicians
Globalization & Trade [6]

As Public Citizen’s division fighting for a fairer global economy, Global Trade Watch works to expose and challenge trade policies that put corporate profits over people.

Under Donald Trump, that mission faces a new urgency. Trump has won two elections in part by exploiting working people’s real frustrations about an increasingly complex and unequal global economy, yet his trade agenda serves only himself and his billionaire allies.

Global Trade Watch seeks to hold him accountable, resist corporate rollbacks, and advance a global trade vision that uplifts workers across borders.

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Climate & Energy [7]

The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power — and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy. We also must fight the corrupting power of fossil fuel companies and ensure that energy regulators are effective and publicly accountable.

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Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Trump’s Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power
Justice & the Courts [8]

Litigation can remedy or deter wrongdoing, impact policy and meaningfully slow abuses of power. Whether suing on behalf of our members to ensure the honest functioning of government, or representing individual consumers seeking redress in court, our litigation draws on our expertise in administrative law, constitutional law, and government transparency.

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Protecting Constitutional Rights & Requirements Remove

National Community Reinvestment Coalition v. CFPB

September 23, 2022

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) requires financial institutions to publicly report data about mortgages and other home loans that…

Moore v. Harper

June 27, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) shut the door to federal constitutional challenges to partisan…

Greater Chautauqua Federal Credit Union v. Marks

March 31, 2022

In December 2021, New York enacted the Fair Consumer Judgment Interest Act, which reduced the interest rate on money judgments…

Haverkamp v. Linthicum; Haverkamp v. Johnson

July 30, 2021

An inmate incarcerated within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison system brought suit alleging that she has been…

California v. Texas/Texas v. California

June 17, 2021

As originally enacted, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) required individuals to obtain health insurance coverage and imposed…

Weissman v. National Railroad Passenger Corp. d/b/a Amtrak

April 28, 2021

Congress established Amtrak as a governmental corporation to provide passenger rail services to travelers throughout the nation. In 2018, passengers…

Nora v. Wolf

February 05, 2021

This suit was filed on behalf of 26 asylum seekers—12 adults and their 14 minor children—who are trapped in life-threatening…

Protecting Constitutional Rights & Requirements

CFPB v. RD Legal

January 14, 2021

In March 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the State of New York brought an enforcement action against…

Carney v. Adams

December 10, 2020

Delaware’s constitution provides that all members of its three highest courts—the Supreme Court, Superior Court, and Court of Chancery—must be…

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Overturn Citizens United Now

ICE Detention Center Contractors Host a Hotbed of Legal Problems, Regulatory Violations and Deadly Conditions

Strengthening State Laws to Protect Elections & State Public Officials

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

Corporate Crime Enforcement Plummets in Trump’s First Year, Rewards Top Donors

One in Four Federal Lobbyists Now Work on AI

Join the Movement

Win Medicare for All

Report: The Trump Administration’s Stop-Work Order and Funding Freeze likely affected 32 USAID-Funded Clinical Trials

Public Citizen Petitions OSHA and CMS to Implement Work-Hour Regulations for Resident Physicians

Join the Trade Justice Movement

Tell Toyota: Go all-in on EVs

Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Trump’s Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power

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