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Continuing the recent trend, New York State has again enacted changes to New York’s election and government ethics laws in order to “restore public trust” in government. These “reforms,” which are likely to affect advocacy...

In late October 2015, the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) released a draft Advisory Opinion that would overturn a nearly 20-year-old ethics opinion regarding political activities by public office holders and their employees. This...

By Robert J. Higdon Jr. Tyler Harber’s prosecution, and the two year federal prison sentence he recently received, are clearly warning shots across the bow of federal political campaigns around the country. And the blatant and unsympathetic...

After Tuesday night's rather -- intense -- Presidential debate , it was fun to watch Gov. Romney and President Obama good-naturedly tease each other at the Al Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner to benefit Catholic Charities of New York. With two and...

Bloomberg News Editorial, Oct. 25, 2012 : "It is both remarkable and disgraceful that Congress understands the problem. It hears of little else from companies, including General Electric Co., Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., and yet can’t seem...

"While the political campaigns remain obsessed over what is actually a dwindling problem of illegal immigration, they are largely ignoring a more urgent need to reform the nation’s legal-immigration laws." - Edward Alden, Dec. 19,...

MIAMI - (AP) Republicans upset that Gov. Charlie Crist abandoned the GOP to become an independent were thwarted Thursday in a legal maneuver to force Crist's U.S. Senate campaign to refund about $7.5 million in contributions. Circuit Judge Jack Schoonover...

LONDON - (APINTL) Polls in Britain's razor-edge election opened early Thursday in a race that is likely to reshape the country's politics in historic ways. Should Gordon Brown cling to power, his Labour Party will have pulled off one of the...