Supreme Court Preview: NRSC v. FEC -
On June 30, 2025, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear what may be the most significant campaign finance case since Citizens United freed corporate entities to spend unlimited…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently suggested that the Empire State could undertake a mid-decade redistricting of its congressional districts, apparently as a form of political retaliation against Republican-led states that…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics
On July 7, 2025, in National Religious Broadcasters, et al. v. Billy Long, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Services, et al., Docket no: 6:24-cv-00311-JCB (E.D. Texas) (“NRB”), the IRS entered into a consent decree in which…
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Nonprofit Law, Taxation
By: Jan Baran and Austin Graham July will be a big, beautiful and busy month for federal lobbyists. Two separate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings are due later this month: quarterly lobbying reports (LD-2) for the second…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics
Today, the Supreme Court interpreted the Clean Air Act’s venue framework for judicial review of EPA actions. Under 42 U. S. C. §7607(b)(1), “nationally applicable” EPA actions can be challenged only in the D. C. Circuit, while…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
New Jersey District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled last Wednesday on Mahmoud Khalil’s petition for a preliminary injunction, one that, if granted, could have seen Khalil freed from the Louisiana prison in which he is now…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
DOJ Declines to Defend Party Coordinated Expenditure Limits Before Supreme Court, Urges Court to Invalidate Limits -
On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) responded to the petition for writ of certiorari filed…
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/ Civil Procedure, Elections & Politics, Labor & Employment Law
On March 28, 2025, the New York State Senate Elections Committee met and voted to approve seven bills…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics
Jan Baran speaks with Artificial Intelligence (AI) legal expert. lawyer and teacher, Oliver Roberts, to speak about AI, its birth, its forms, and how people have historically used and are currently using the ever-changing…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Elections & Politics, Electronic Discovery, Law Practice Products & Services
In Compliance: Holtzman Vogel's Monthly Round-Up In the April 2025 In-Compliance recap, we cover the following topics:
President Trump Directs Attorney General to Investigate ActBlue -
FEC Commissioner Allen Dickerson…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics
In Compliance: Holtzman Vogel's Monthly Round-Up In this March 2025 issue of In Compliance, we cover the following topics:
President Trump Issues Executive Order on Election Integrity -
Treasury Department Eliminates…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Elections & Politics, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In this episode of Early Returns, Jan Baran speaks with Brody Mullins, co-author of “The Wolves of K Street” and Pulitzer Prize winning Wall Street Journal journalist, about the historical, present and future world of lobbyists…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics
On March 25, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS.” This far-reaching Executive Order requires federal and state authorities to implement numerous…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Immigration Law, International Law & Trade
The New York State Board of Elections (NYSBOE) approved and released its 2025 list of legislative proposals…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics
In a letter dated January 31, 2025, President Trump informed FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub that she is "hereby removed as a Member of the Federal Election Commission, effective immediately.” Weintraub made the letter public in the…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics
