Opposition to the CLARITY Act

The following is a list of organizations and individuals that have raised concerns about, or opposed, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act), including current or earlier versions of the bill and related Senate digital asset market-structure proposals.

 

Law Enforcement

• Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies (ASCIA) (letter)
• Conference of State Bank Supervisors (letter)
• Fraternal Order of Police (letter)
• International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) (letter)
• National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys (NAAUSA) (letter)
• National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) (news update)
• National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) (letter)
• National Sheriffs’ Association (letter)
• North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) (letter)
• Office of the New York Attorney General, Letitia James (statement)
• State Securities Administrators (24 states) (letter)
• Debra LaPrevotte, former FBI Supervisory Special Agent (quote)
• John Cassara, former U.S. Treasury Special Agent (quote)
• Karen Greenaway, retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent (quote)

Anti-Human Trafficking

• Alliance to End Human Trafficking (letter)
• No Trafficking Zone (NTZ) (letter)
• The John J. Brunetti Human Trafficking Academy (letter)

National Security

• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (commentary)
• Richard Nephew, former U.S. Coordinator on Global Anti-Corruption and Deputy Special Envoy for Iran (quote)
• Nate Sibley, former Director, Hudson Institute Kleptocracy Initiative (quote)
• Alex Stapleton, Senior Policy Advisor for Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy for America (quote)

Faith

• Buddhist Coalition for Democracy Westchester (NY) (letter)
• Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida (letter)
• Church Women United in New York State (letter)
• Civic Sundays (letter)
• Faith in Action (letter)
• Faith in New Jersey (letter)
• Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology (letter)
• Missouri Faith Voices (letter)
• National Latino Evangelical Coalition (op-ed)
• NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice (letter)
• Sisters of Mary Reparatrix (letter)
• Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Justice Team (letter)
• The Park Church in Elmira (letter)
• Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community (letter)

Civil Rights & Economic Justice

• Action Center on Race and the Economy (letter)
• American Economic Liberties Project (letter)
• Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) (letter)
• Center for LGBTQ Economic Advancement & Research (CLEAR) (letter)
• Democrats.com (letter)
• MediaJustice (letter)
• People’s Action Institute (letter)
• Racial Justice Investing Coalition (letter)
• Social Equity Empowerment Network NY (letter)
• Strong Economy For All Coalition (letter)
• Virginia Poverty Law Center (letter)
• Virginia Organizing (letter)

Ethics & Democracy

• Accountable.us / Accountable.NOW (letter)
• Amb. Norm Eisen (quote)
• California Democracy Defenders (letter)
• Campaign Legal Center (quote)
• Center for Common Ground, NJ (letter)
• Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) (quote)
• Common Cause (quote)
• Declaration for American Democracy (quote)
• Demand Progress Action (letter)
• Democracy Defenders Action (quote)
• Democracy for America Advocacy Fund (letter)
• Election Reform Committee of Ulster Activists (NY) (letter)
• Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT Coalition) (letter)
• Free Russia Foundation (letter)
• Free Speech For People (letter)
• Indivisible (letter)
  • More than 130 grassroots Indivisible groups nationwide (letter)
• New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) (letter)
• Our Revolution (letter)
• PERR / NYPAN Suffolk County (letter)
• Public Citizen (quote, letter)
• Sister District Project SF (letter)
• Swing Left San Gabriel Valley (letter)
• TakeItBack.Org (letter)
• Transparency International U.S. (statement)
• Walter Shaub, former Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics (quote)
• Wareham for Law and Democracy (letter)

Labor Unions

• American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) (quote)
• American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) (quote)
• American Federation of Teachers (AFT) (quote)
• Committee for Better Banks (letter)
• Communications Workers of America (CWA) (letter)
• Service Employees International Union (SEIU) (quote)

Consumer Protection & Financial Reform Groups

• Affordable Homeownership Foundation Inc. (letter)
• Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) (letter)
• Better Markets (letter)
• Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union (letter)
• Center for Economic Integrity (letter)
• Center for Economic Justice (letter)
• Center for Responsible Lending (letter)
• Consumer Action (letter)
• Consumer Federation of America (quote)
• Consumer Federation of California (letter)
• Consumer Reports (letter)
• Economic Action Maryland Fund (letter)
• Erin West, Founder, Operation Shamrock (quote)
• Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (letter)
• Mountain State Justice (letter)
• National Association of Consumer Advocates (letter)
• National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) (letter)
• National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients) (letter)
• National Consumers League (letter)
• New Economy Project (letter)
• New Jersey Appleseed Public Interest Law Center (letter)
• New Mexico Fair Lending Coalition (letter)
• New Yorkers for Responsible Lending (letter)
• NJ Citizen Action (letter)
• Oregon Consumer Justice (letter)
• Oregon Consumer League (letter)
• Rise Economy (letter)
• Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance (letter)
• South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center (letter)
• Take On Wall Street (letter)
• The Academy of Financial Education (letter)
• Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (letter)
• Woodstock Institute (letter)

Environment

• Berks Gas Truth (letter)
• Better Path Coalition (letter)
• Breathe Easy Susquehanna County (letter)
• CASE Citizens Alliance for a Sustainable Englewood (letter)
• Center for Biological Diversity (letter)
• Cherokee County NC Citizens Against Crypto Mining (letter)
• Clean Energy Action (letter)
• Climate and Community Institute (letter)
• Climate Reality Greater Maryland (letter)
• Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes (letter)
• Concerned Health Care Professionals of Pennsylvania (letter)
• Don’t Gas the Meadowlands Coalition (letter)
• Elders Climate Action Maryland (letterletter)
• Elmirans and Friends Against Fracking (letter)
• Empower Our Future (letter)
• Flow Water Advocates (letter)
• Food & Water Watch (letter)
• Fossil Free Tompkins (letter)
• FrackBustersNY (letter)
• FreshWater Accountability Project (letter)
• Georgia Coalition Against Cryptomining (letter)
• Greenpeace USA (letter)
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (letter)
• Little Lakes Sustainability Network (letter)
• McKean County Green Party (letter)
• Montana Environmental Information Center (letter)
• Move Past Plastic (MPP) (letter)
• National Coalition Against Cryptomining (letter)
• No False Climate Solutions PA (letter)
• North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE) (letter)
• North Tonawanda Climate Smart Communities Task Force (letter)
• People for a Healthy Environment (letter)
• Physicians for Social Responsibility of PA (letter)
• Responsible Decarbonization Alliance (letter)
• River Guardian Foundation (letter)
• Save Mitchell Bend (letter)
• Save Our Streams PA (letter)
• Seneca Lake Guardian (letter)
• Sustainable Finger Lakes (letter)
• Terra Advocati (letter)
• The Clean Air Coalition of Western New York (letter)
• 350 Bay Area Action (letter)
• 350 Hawaii (letter)
• 350 Triangle (letter)

Other

• 20/20 Vision (letter)
• Ageless Activists (NY) (letter)
• Animals Are Sentient Beings, Inc. (letter)
• Arkansas Community Organizations (letter)
• Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (CEDAM) (letter)
• Dream Tank (letter)
• Economic Empowerment Center DBA Lending Link (letter)
• Freedom Writers Collaborative (letter)
• Frank Knapp Jr., small-business advocate (op-ed)
• Greenfire Coalition Writers’ Forum (letter)
• HollywoodDemocrats PAC (letter)
• Justice Alliance (AZ) (letter)
• Lawrence Citizen Activists (NJ) (letter)
• Long Island Progressive Coalition (letter)
• Maine People’s Alliance (letter)
• Metro Justice (letter)
• Mobilize the Vote NEO (OH) (letter)
• Occupy Bergen County (New Jersey) (letter)
• Othello Park Alliance (letter)
• P Street (letter)
• People Power United (letter)
• Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (letter)
• ProgressNow Colorado (letter)
• Project CoffeeHouse (letter)
• Responsible Growth NE Washington (letter)
• Team Trouble USA (letter)
• The Tech Oversight Project (letter)
• Together We Will / Indivisible-Los Gatos (CA) (letter)
• Unite North Metro Denver (letter)
• Venice Resistance (CA) (letter)
• WADEIn New Jersey (letter)
• We Rise Up (TX) (letter)
• WESPAC Foundation, Inc. (letter)