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12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 1 - The Impact of the 2024 State AG Elections — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
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Raising Money for Federal Candidates
State AG Pulse | Everybody Comes From Somewhere
State AG Pulse | Swinging Through the Rust Belt, the Sun Belt and the South
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2024 Elections: The Race for the White House and Congress
Video: Things to Remember in Q1 when Preparing 2024 Federal Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) Reports
Early Returns Law and Politics with Jan Baran: Sean Cooksey Shares FEC Menu for 2024
Should Your Company Take a Stand on Political and Social Issues?
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 1: Candidate Campaign Intervention
State AG Pulse | Season Finale: 2022 AG Election Wrap-Up
State AG Pulse | In Massachusetts, What Will Sway The Voters?
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[Podcast] A Conversation with FEC Commissioner Shana Broussard
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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...more
"President Donald Trump’s legacy may ultimately depend on which faction of potential candidates his successor comes from and his willingness to weigh in on that choice.”... While only six months into President Trump’s second...more
Legislators to Miss Budget Deadline Again Amid $5.5B Gap, Policy Disputes -For the fourth consecutive year, Pennsylvania lawmakers have missed the June 30 budget deadline as negotiations stall over how to close a projected...more
Big issues for Illinois legislative session’s final week include public transit, pension reform and Bears - “Illinois lawmakers head into the final days of their spring session this week looking for ways to close a...more
Longtime Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin won’t seek reelection - “Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin will not seek a sixth term next year, confirming to WBEZ in an Illinois exclusive that he will leave office in 2027 in a...more
Over two years into the post-Dobbs era, women’s health is taking center stage in the presidential election. In Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court overturned protections relating to abortion established in Roe v. Wade. Since...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued an important decision regarding the ability of federal candidates to coordinate with committees such as the National Republican Senatorial Committee....more
The Cozen Lens- •Even if this year’s Republican Party platform is shorter than usual, former President Trump’s influence is evident in not only the policies it proposes, but perhaps more so in the ones it avoids. •In a...more
Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more
The Cozen Lens- •President Biden launched his fourth and final campaign for president last week, this time as an incumbent. Biden's MO is to prove the naysayers wrong while pointing out he's the least worst option. •This...more
Donald Trump and his allies have insisted that he can and should run as a third-party candidate in the general election if he fails to win the Republican nomination. The authors, practicing lawyers specializing in political...more
The Cozen Lens- The 2020 election and its aftermath were a major stress test of American democracy. There are more stress tests to come in this year’s midterm election and in 2024. ...more
The Cozen Lens- •For all the focus on the culture wars in the midterms this year, politicians in close races are spending most of their time focused on the economy, likely making it the decisive electoral factor. ...more
Republicans love to cuss out the president while Democrats aren’t feeling much love for their party leader. Yet the success and longevity of Joe Biden's presidency won't be measured by who he is and how many memes are...more
The Cozen Lens- •Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is running for reelection this year. But all eyes are on what he does two years later, as DeSantis presents the most formidable challenge to a third presidential election cycle...more
On May 16, 2022, the United States Supreme Court ruled that limiting the repayment of candidate loans to their own campaign to $250,000 (codified under 52 U.S.C. § 30116(j)) is unconstitutional. The Plaintiffs, Ted Cruz for...more
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, the case challenging the loan repayment prohibition in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA). The Court ruled 6-3 along familiar...more
Announcement may be made later today. The New York Times reports this morning that President Biden has selected his nominee to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer....more
First black woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court. Upon the news of Justice Breyer’s imminent retirement, President Biden announced that he intended to fulfill a campaign promise by nominating the first black woman...more
The Supreme Court has sent the creatures discussed in Beth’s December 7, 2021 blog back into obscurity. In an Order dated December 8, 2021, that Court granted a temporary injunction and stayed the candidate-filing period for...more
Frontier Sued over Allegations that Its DSL Service Is Slower than Advertised - The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), and a bipartisan group of five state AGs and two California district attorneys, sued Internet service...more
IRS Publishes Proposed section 305(c) Regulations - On April 12th, the IRS published proposed regulations under Section 305(c) that address the treatment of deemed dividends to holders of stock and rights to acquire...more