Indeed, lobbyists must be in the game if their business can hope to survive, but the lawyers and judges run it all. Every new rule and regulation is to their benefit. The lawyer judge in HAwaii has now set immigration policy with a simple piece of paper.
Your efforts to minimize the overwhelming impact of lobbying money, and to excuse it as necessary for survival, betray one of two things: a conflict of interest on the subject, or deep deep deep deep deep ignorance of just how completely the systematic bribery of “lobbying” has corrupted every facet of government.
Care to tell me which is your particular affliction here?