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Quantico Directive An assessment that maps how power concentrates, how command reshapes, and how vague statutes unlock street-level force. Readers follow a plain chain from personnel moves and legal framing to deployments that normalize presence. https://lnkd.in/eFVgdXUX

A recent Federal Court decision underscores the limited options for congressional subpoena targets. This blog highlights key takeaways for companies, executives, and organizations facing congressional inquiries: https://okt.to/g863lv

Yesterday, Governor Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA), authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) – legislation carefully designed to enhance online safety by installing commonsense guardrails on the development of frontier artificial intelligence models, helping build public trust while also continuing to spur innovation in these new technologies. Here's CHAPTER 138:

The Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence interlocutory appeal, pending in the Third Circuit, is one of the first appellate proceedings about fair use and artificial intelligence. KBL attorneys Michael Kwun and Elizabeth Dinh today filed a brief amici curiae on behalf of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, Chamber of Progress, and NetChoice urging the Third Circuit to take care in faithfully applying the law of fair use.

The third amicus brief filed in support of ROSS Intelligence in ROSS v. Westlaw. Grateful to Michael Kwun and Elizabeth Dinh for their work on behalf of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, Chamber of Progress, and NetChoice. Key lines from the brief: 👉 ”[Westlaw’s] attempt to monopolize the market by making it impossible for others to compete runs counter to the statutory purpose of promoting creative expression.” 👉 “ROSS’s use—like Google’s use, like HathiTrust’s use, and like iParadigms’ use—was transformative.” Free the law & free AI.

An internal Justice Department memo reveals a September 10 directive from Premier Smith's office on invoking the notwithstanding clause. READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/e7grXHHy

An internal Justice Department memo reveals a September 10 directive from Premier Smith's office on invoking the notwithstanding clause. READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/e7grXHHy

Unregulated speech is the single greatest threat to a free society. Our refusal to set boundaries protects the machinery of liberty's destruction, allowing our public discourse to fracture completely. Deliberate, high-impact misinformation campaigns are a core feature of the system, monetized and weaponized to erode our shared reality. The common rebuttal, "Who decides?", is a distraction from the urgent, practical solution. We already have functional models for regulating complex systems. The legal system, financial markets, and public health all rely on independent bodies to adjudicate facts and enforce standards. The challenge is to architect resilience against coordinated, systemic deceit. I break down the full framework for a speech regulation body, modeled on existing, successful institutions, in an earlier article. Link in the first comment. #SystemsThinking #InformationIntegrity #DigitalGovernance #Misinformation

"Despite being touted as a critical avenue for congressional oversight," the Congressional Review Act "is often deployed as a partisan tool that replaces agency expertise and democratic consideration with political maneuvers," scholars at the Center for Progressive Reform argue in a recent essay. https://lnkd.in/eDnnMpNH

READ: https://lnkd.in/eCJ8mBAv To better understand changes in preemption and its impact on local policies, CPHLR, in partnership with the National League of Cities, have tracked and analyzed enacted state laws across 10+ topic areas from 2019 to 2024.