The Center for American Progress and Governing for Impact urge federal financial regulatory agencies to use powers already under their authority to regulate AI.
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Author: Reed Shaw
Notice & Comment: A Tool for Navigating the Post–Corner Post World
In a Term full of hard blows to agencies, Corner Post might end up being the hardest. But administrative law allows a remedy that could avert some the decision’s worst potential effects—remand without vacatur.
Notice & Comment: Guidance for the Post-Chevron World
Our organization, Governing for Impact, has released an issue brief offering guidance to policymakers on how to understand the post-Chevron world—and how to act boldly in the face of that uncertainty.
Cap Times: How an obscure federal law could be used to ban abortion nationwide
A 150-year-old law governing the U.S. Postal Service could be used by a conservative presidential administration to ban abortion nationwide, and a new study suggests that thousands of Wisconsin women would lose reproductive health care in the process.
The study was released by progressive-leaning policy think tank Governing for Impact and describes how a president could interpret an 1873 anti-vice law known as the Comstock Act to ban abortions.
Tech Policy Press: A Roadmap for Regulating High-Risk AI Under Existing US Law
If there’s one thing everyone seems to agree on when it comes to confronting the foreseeable harms of AI, it’s that we should start by vigorously enforcing the laws on the books.
Axios: How agencies can regulate AI without new powers
Government agencies should use existing regulations and powers to regulate AI, argues a new report from the Center for American Progress and Governing for Impact shared first with Axios.
OnLabor: Mercedes’ Use of Union-Busters in Alabama Highlights the Need for Disclosure Reform
For the first time in decades, public attention was focused on union organizing in the American South.
Huffington Post: Progressives Urge Biden Administration to Crack Down on ‘Union-Busting Industry
A new report warns of “increasingly aggressive tactics” by employers, while calling for greater transparency on anti-union spending.
Notice & Comment: Nothing to See Here: Misconceptions About the Overtime Rule’s Inflation Adjuster
Last week, several business groups including the National Federation of Independent Businesses filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate one of the Department of Labor’s top priorities: a final rule issued in April that updates the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime salary thresholds to ensure that millions more workers are eligible for extra pay if they work more than forty hours per week.
The Regulatory Review: A Win for the Federal Government’s Contracting Power
A recent court decision supports using procurement authority to address climate change and other policy issues.