Updates

A federal district court in Miami has permanently enjoined Florida’s recent restrictions on sitting lawmakers from lobbying other governments for pay while in office as overbroad, content-based [...]

An initiative attempting to make the ballot for 2024 backed by Consumer Watchdog would require lawmakers to make certain currently private papers public, including records pertaining to their [...]

Lobbying firms reported higher fees than the previous quarter despite Congress’ little legislative output.  Together, the heightened attention to the NDAA, the addition of IRA implementation, a [...]

The new Commission on Ethics and Lobbying and Government (COELIG) opened just three inquiries in its first year as an agency, which pales in comparison to its predecessor, the Joint Commission on [...]

While more than 50 election related bills were considered this legislative session in California, with its scheduled adjournment of September 14 on the horizon, that number has now been whittled [...]

The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has filed a lawsuit challenging a new State law that prohibits foreign influenced corporations from making independent expenditures or ballot measure [...]

The Federal Election Commission deadlocked 3-3 last week on whether to regulate campaign advertisements featuring images of candidates that have been artificially altered using deepfake [...]

Six months after implementing contribution limits to candidates and their committees, the New Hampshire legislature has passed and the Governor has signed the State’s most recent budget bill that [...]

A ballot measure to replace the statewide contribution limits formerly struck down by a federal court in 2021 was filed last week.  The measure, if approved by voters, would implement a $2,000 [...]

As part of the ongoing budget process, the San Francisco Ethics Commission is facing steep cuts that Chair Yvonne Lee has stated could jeopardize their work.  While the proposed cuts this year [...]