On August 28th, Partner Josh Rosenstein was quoted in a Bloomberg Government article examining President Donald Trump’s directive to the Justice Department to investigate whether federal grant funds are being used to support lobbying activity — something already prohibited by law. The administration framed the memo as a measure to protect taxpayer dollars, but ethics experts warned it could have a chilling effect on progressive advocacy groups.

“Joshua Rosenstein, a member of Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock who focuses on lobbying compliance law, called the memo ‘bizarre.’

Though it ‘reaffirms what was already illegal,’ the memo signals to the Justice Department what the president wants it to focus on and may signal to progressive or left-leaning groups that they could be targeted,’ Rosenstein said.”

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