The powerful gun-rights group learned Thursday that overcoming the dissolution suit brought by New York’s attorney general will take more than filing for bankruptcy and uprooting from the Empire State.
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On his way out the door, the outgoing president lifted a five-year lobbying ban that he proudly adopted four years ago.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot claw back documents it disclosed by mistake revealing the names of oil lobbyists who planned a chummy “happy hour” outing with senior EPA officials, a federal judge has ruled.
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The global tobacco industry has aggressively lobbied governments during the Covid-19 pandemic to expand markets and blunt measures designed to curb their business, a report from watchdog groups aligned with the World Health Organization claimed on Tuesday.
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Arguing before a state appeals court Tuesday, Uber and Lyft lawyers predicted fewer rides for consumers, lower earnings for drivers and a spike in drunk-driving accidents if they are forced to classify California drivers as employees instead of contractors.
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Private-sector unions can’t force employees to contribute toward lobbying activities, the First Circuit ruled Tuesday, the latest court defeat for labor organizers since a major Supreme Court loss in 2018.
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Four former and current progressive prosecutors are forming a new lobbying group in California to counter the influence of traditional law enforcement unions that often oppose criminal justice reform efforts.
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An American consultant has been charged in an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S.
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Like many disruptions during the pandemic, the Democratic convention that was supposed to crown Joe Biden this week will be digital-only, taking down with it a four-day binge of networking, catering and cocktails that brings together lobbyists, operatives, major donors and elected officials from across the country.
Read moreA federal court in New York dismissed the National Rifle Association’s suit against the state and Governor Andrew Cuomo over gun shop closures during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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An attorney for ex-NRA president and Florida gun rights lobbyist Marion Hammer asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to reinstate her harassment lawsuit against a California attorney who emailed her images of gunshot wound victims, including President John F. Kennedy, in protest of her lobbying activities.
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Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work violates Trump’s own ethics policy, according to a report.
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Former Washington insider and longtime lobbyist Jack Abramoff was charged Thursday for his role in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme, and has already made a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty.
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On the campaign trail a year before his election, Donald Trump boasted in a radio interview that his real estate holdings in Istanbul could influence U.S.-Turkish foreign policy as president.
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A Hungarian law requiring nongovernmental organizations to register with the government if they receive foreign donations was declared illegal by the European Union’s highest court on Thursday.
Read moreThe NRA sued Oliver North in Albany County (N.Y.) Supreme Court, demanding that he resign from its board of directors or from the NRA’s former advertising firm, Ackerman McQueen.
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In three letters copied to the U.S. president, a Turkish businessman who partnered on the Trump Towers Istanbul deal implored White House officials to sizably boost trade with Turkey in response to the novel coronavirus.
Read moreA former chemical industry executive nominated to be the nation’s top consumer safety watchdog was involved in sidelining detailed guidelines to help communities reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, internal government emails show.
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Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s long-term homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them immunity from claims of inadequate care.
Read morePolitical lobbyists may have been hit as hard as other sectors by the virus pandemic, but that doesn’t justify giving them a slice of the government aid pie, a federal judge ruled.
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