Advocates for a minimum degree of paid sick leave for Nebraska workers brought boxes of petition signatures to downtown Lincoln before bringing them to the Nebraska Secretary of State's Office on June 27, 2024. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Nebraska is suing six national nonprofits and a key funder of the organizations, alleging he and the groups illegally spent more than $10 million boosting progressive state ballot initiatives with “foreign money.”

It is the first time the state has sued under a 2022 law the Legislature passed banning foreign nationals from funding ballot question campaigns in Nebraska.

State Attorney General Mike Hilgers, a Republican, announced Wednesday that his civil attorneys had traced money from Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss given to American no

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