The National Sheriffs’ Association was the last of the major police organizations opposing the Clarity Act to change its position, moving from opposition to neutral. But that shift is notable.

Compare the language in this letter with the one the group sent July 31, when it described the bill as “harmful,” warned of “significant law enforcement and public safety risks” and characterized the BRCA language as “terrible policy.”

While not an endorsement, the shift likely reflects significant behind-the-scenes work between White House officials and the group this summer to move it from its earlier highly critical stance to neutral.

Not expected to change their positions, I’m told, are the prosecutors: the National District Attorneys Association and the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys.

Both groups have conditioned their support on significantly narrowing the BRCA’s protections for noncustodial software developers, including making it easier to prosecute them as unlicensed money transmitters for knowingly moving illicit funds. The White House, Treasury, Members of Congress and the crypto industry have made clear they are unwilling to make those changes.

Democratic Senator @SenCortezMasto aligned herself with the prosecutors’ groups in a July letter backing the proposed changes and has not publicly shifted her position since.

But the NSA’s move to neutral is generally being viewed as removing another obstacle on the path to the September 15 vote.