{"id":346370,"date":"2026-09-14T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346370\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:58:22","slug":"18-state-attorneys-general-led-by-new-york-urge-congress-to-reject-clarity-act-citing-weaker-investor-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346370\/","title":{"rendered":"18 State Attorneys General, Led by New York, Urge Congress to Reject CLARITY Act, Citing Weaker Investor Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys general from 18 U.S. states, including New York, urged Congress to vote against the CLARITY Act ahead of a procedural Senate vote.<br \/>\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James said the current CLARITY Act could empower fraudsters and strip state attorneys general of their authority to protect investors and their assets.<br \/>\nThe opposition came ahead of a procedural Senate vote on September 15 that will decide whether to begin formal consideration of the CLARITY Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_feedSummaryContent-module-scss-module__B3djzW__newsAnalyticsTitle\">Forecast Trend Report by Period<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Indicator.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"light\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Indicator-dark.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"dark\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/>See more mid- to long-term trend analysis<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/59486a9f-d75a-481c-bf2e-ca6a1920fc43.webp\" alt=\"Photo: The Block X\" width=\"646\" role=\"presentation\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photo: The Block X<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys general from 18 U.S. states, including New York, urged Congress to vote against the CLARITY Act ahead of a key procedural vote in the Senate on September 15.<\/p>\n<p>The Block reported on September 14 that New York Attorney General Letitia James and 17 other state attorneys general sent a letter to Congress opposing the CLARITY Act.<\/p>\n<p>James said the bill, in its current form, could empower fraudsters and strip state attorneys general of their authority to protect investors and their assets.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, she and her counterparts urged Congress not to pass the CLARITY Act.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition came ahead of a procedural Senate vote on September 15 that will determine whether the chamber begins formal consideration of the CLARITY Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorneys general from 18 U.S. states, including New York, urged Congress to vote against the CLARITY Act ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16967,110973,6227,110971,110972,110978,110977,110975,110974,110976,10525,14702,9,11,10,49,51,50,110979],"class_list":["post-346370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoincommunity","tag-blockchain","tag-bloomingbit","tag-coincommunity","tag-coininfo","tag-coininvest","tag-coinnews","tag-coinreview","tag-coinstats","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-ethereum","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}