House Bills 4062, 4063 and 4064 would rewrite Michigan’s lobbyist registration law to expand a narrow existing ban into a full two-year cooling-off period for all former state legislators and to ...

Licht's own appointment to the bench raised 'revolving door' questions.

Presiding Justice Montalbano, a former Senate president, assigned former House speaker Shekarchi’s case to Judge Licht, a former senator and administration director whose interest in a judgeship ...

The lawsuit seeks a stay to block the Ethics Commission from investigating if Shekarchi is eligible to join the Supreme Court ...

The complaint alleges Shekarchi violated a revolving door ban by applying for a seat on the state Supreme Court. His lawyer ...

House Republicans say Lansing has a “revolving door” problem in which lawmakers and top state officials quickly become lobbyists after leaving their taxpayer-funded jobs. That quick transition from ...

Specifically, Zimmer wanted to increase the one-year-ban on lobbying for former members to two years and strip former lawmakers registered as lobbyists of their special access to gyms, dining rooms ...

Last Thursday Neyer gave a key testimony that secured committee passage of his plan to strengthen the accountability of state government. This closed the revolving door between lawmakers and lobbyists ...