Trevor Potter

Trevor Potter is president at Campaign Legal Center. Potter is a Republican former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), was general counsel to John McCain’s 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns and an adviser to the drafters of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. He appeared frequently on The Colbert Report as the lawyer for Colbert’s super PAC during the 2012 election and is the author of several books and manuals on lobbying regulation and disclosure, campaign finance and federal election law. He has provided testimony and written statements to Congress on federal election proposals, campaign finance regulation and the effects of the January 6th attack on our democracy. Potter has taught campaign finance law at the University of Virginia School of Law and Oxford University, and he has appeared widely in national broadcast and print media. During the 2020 election season, Potter was named to the cross-partisan National Task Force on Election Crises.