Laura MacCleery
Democracy, Deputy Director
Ms. MacCleery works to enhance the fairness of electoral systems through public funding of elections and to increase judicial independence. Prior to coming to the Brennan Center, she was the Director of Congress Watch at Public Citizen. While at Public Citizen, she worked on oversight of the federal regulatory agencies on transportation safety and other matters, campaign finance and lobbying reform, public funding of elections, and citizen access to the courts. She has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CSPAN-2, and other television broadcasts. She has been quoted by USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report and numerous other publications. She clerked for Justice Gregory Hobbs of the Supreme Court of Colorado. She received her law degree from Stanford Law School, cum laude, and her B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia, magna cum laude.
Blog Posts
- High Court Spurns Front Group (06/13/08)
- Gone Von Spakovsky, Enter McGahn (05/20/08)
- Protecting the Rights of Millionaires (04/24/08)
- “Parallel Public Financing System”? Not Quite, But Don’t Lose Hope (04/15/08)
- Is the Small-Donor Revolution All It’s Made Out to Be? (04/07/08)
- Roll-Back by Supreme Court Lets Swift Boaters Paddle On (03/27/08)
- A Pledge Worth Keeping (03/20/08)
- Roll Call on PACs; Too High a Price to Pay (02/13/08)