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.
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.
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.
For the first time in decades, public attention was focused on union organizing in the American South.
A new report warns of “increasingly aggressive tactics” by employers, while calling for greater transparency on anti-union spending.
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.
A recent court decision supports using procurement authority to address climate change and other policy issues.
As agencies race to put new regulations into final form, careful drafting can help insulate progressive rules against a skeptical judiciary.
In particular, we focus on how overlapping federal, state and international regulatory regimes may reduce the incremental costs of rulemakings, and therefore weigh against a finding of “economic significance” in the MQD context—as, for example, in the case of the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council’s forthcoming rule on federal contractor climate emissions and risk disclosure.
Advocacy groups offer a road map for how agencies can use existing authority to ban contracts that force workers to pay employers if they leave their job.