Author: Reed Shaw

The Trump administration has settled on a strategy: frame efforts to withhold congressionally appropriated funds as fraud prevention, and hope that hard questions about evidence, process, and legal authority disappear.

When it comes to federal administrative capacity, the Trump administration is working at cross-purposes with itself.

We promised you that this symposium would be for AI skeptics, AI believers, and everyone in between, and we hope that you will agree that we delivered. 

Recent attempts to block wronged federal grantees from having their day in court reflect a broader Trump administration strategy.

The court’s holding is narrower than a first reading might suggest. 

This post is the third contribution to Notice & Comment’s symposium on AI and the APA.

This symposium is for AI skeptics, AI believers, and everyone in between.

Last week, ProPublica reported that the United States Department of Transportation is planning to use Google Gemini, a large language model, to draft federal transportation regulations.

Even the shadow docket holds important lessons for litigants challenging the Trump administration’s funding actions and others.

Last month, Jeffrey Clark, the Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, issued yet another memorandum (M-25-36) describing how the Trump Administration intends to “streamlin[e] the review of deregulatory actions.”