Politics Archive

The Supreme Court decided that Shira Perlmutter can keep her job while it considers two other cases involving FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter and Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook, both of whom Trump also tried to fire. It’s important that the Copyright Office falls under the Library of Congress, which is historically run by, well, Congress, not the White House. Presumably, the line is drawn somewhere about who the president has the power to fire.

A group of 280 state lawmakers expressed “strong opposition” to plans to preempt state AI laws in a must-pass bill. “Freezing state action now would stifle needed innovation in policy design at a moment when it is most needed,” they wrote. You can find a running list of opponents here.

This Associated Press report explains that after getting authorization for a domestic license plate reader in 2017, the readers “have become a major — and in some places permanent — fixture of the border region.”

The White House drafted an executive order to preempt state AI laws, according to a copy obtained by The Verge, but some Trump allies worry it won’t work. “I don’t think the executive branch has the authority to enforce preemption on the states,” Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) told Punchbowl News.