National Legal and Policy Center

Verizon Communications shareholders face a critical governance decision at their May 21 annual meeting: whether to lock in an independent Board Chair policy that would prevent CEO Dan Schulman from accumulating additional authority. National Legal and Policy Center is circulating a comprehensive analysis to Verizon investors urging a FOR vote on Item 6, backed by our detailed exempt solicitation report documenting why this CEO should never hold both titles.

Andrew Kerr reports in the Washington Free Beacon: Disbursements from Eric Swalwell’s campaign accounts corroborate the allegations leveled by a woman who says the former congressman sexually assaulted her in 2018, raising the prospect that Swalwell used campaign contributions to facilitate his alleged sexual misconduct.

NLPC to Challenge Home Depot on Its Costly Plastics Agenda | | Corporate Integrity Project, Featured News Home Depot sells hammers, appliances, and garden supplies. It does not make them. But the Company has quietly turned itself into a plastics policy enforcer — mandating that its suppliers reduce or convert 200 million pounds of plastic by 2028, with every compliance...

Vote FOR Item 6 and AGAINST Item 7 at The Home Depot’s May 21, 2026 Annual Meeting — You May Vote Now National Legal and Policy Center urges shareholders of The Home Depot, Inc. to vote FOR Item 6 on the 2026 Proxy Statement — a proposal asking the Board to commission and publish an independent, scientifically rigorous evaluation of the Company’s plastics packaging policies. NLPC’s exempt solicitation report is available now.

Home Depot sells hammers, appliances, and garden supplies. It does not make them. But the Company has quietly turned itself into a plastics policy enforcer — mandating that its suppliers reduce or convert 200 million pounds of plastic by 2028, with every compliance cost embedded right back into the prices the Company pays for the products on its shelves. National Legal and Policy Center thinks shareholders deserve to know what that’s actually costing them.

Amazon Won’t Tell Shareholders What Its Climate Pledge Costs in Age of AI | | Corporate Integrity Project, Featured News Amazon made a sweeping climate promise in 2019. Seven years later, the company has become the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy — and has never once told shareholders what that strategy costs them. The National Legal and Policy Center...

Obama’s Two Attorneys General Cashed In; US Corporations Paid the Bill | | Corporate Integrity Project, Featured News Last week NLPC documented how Eric Holder — Barack Obama’s first Attorney General — built a lucrative racial equity audit practice at Covington & Burling, billing corporations nearly $2,300 an hour to certify their racial justice compliance while...

Amazon.com, Inc. — 2026 Annual Meeting, May 20, 2026 — Shareholders may vote now at www.ProxyVote.com (you will need your control number or an account number). National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has prepared an exempt solicitation report urging shareholders of Amazon.com, Inc. to vote FOR Item 6 on the 2026 proxy ballot.

Amazon made a sweeping climate promise in 2019. Seven years later, the company has become the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy — and has never once told shareholders what that strategy costs them. The National Legal and Policy Center demands an answer. NLPC has prepared for shareholders an executive summary and exempt solicitation report (PDF), which has been circulated to Amazon investors large and small ahead of the company’s May 20, 2026 annual meeting.

Gerrymandering, the practice by which the majority party in a state legislature redraws congressional maps in ways that maximize the party’s representation in Congress, at times with bizarre boundaries, suddenly is a political weapon of choice. California voters last November approved a Democrat-sponsored referendum, Proposition 50, an ostensibly temporary measure, by 64.4 percent to 35.6 percent.