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Anika Jaitley, Daniel W. Linna Jr., Hon. Xavier Rodriguez, V.S. Subrahmanian & Siyu Tao, Artificial Intelligence in Federal Courts: A Random-Sample Survey of Judges, 27 SEDONA CONF. J. _____ (forthcoming 2026). “The purpose of this study is to understand how, and to what extent, federal judges and other personnel who work in their chambers use …
W.H. Lawrence: “Pete Hegseth just stepped into a sequence with no recorded escape. Every modern conviction, from Nuremberg to The Hague to Lyon, began the same way: a man in power, certain the rules did not apply. Every one of them was proven wrong. Nuremberg did not isolate liability to the officer who spoke the …
Seth Chandler – “Something remarkable has happened in the last few months, and most of the legal academy has not noticed. Anthropic’s Claude—the AI assistant many of us have experimented with for drafting, brainstorming, and analysis—can now directly control a web browser. That means Claude can log into Westlaw or Lexis, run searches, read cases, …
Scott McFarlane/AP – Memos, documents released under GOP-led Arctic Frost probe raise new questions about Mar-a-Lago classified records case. In an inquiry released this morning, the ranking member of the US House Judiciary Committee alleges the investigation into then-ex-President Trump’s retention of classified records at Mar-a-Lago found possible evidence Trump showed a classified map to …
How to find and vet credible data sources you can use right away – NICAR 2026 meeting – Slide Deck by Stephanie Lamm, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Greg Morton, Baltimore Banner; Sean Mussenden, University of Maryland. A new source I learned about via this presentation – WONDER online databases utilize a rich ad-hoc query system for …
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft: “Top think tanks received over $25 million from foreign governments and $7 million from Pentagon contractors in 2024, according to the newly updated Think Tank Funding Tracker released today. Both figures, drawn from the most recently available donor rolls, are conservative estimates, as about 40% of think tanks do not …
ProPublica: “In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. Or, as …
Ars Technica: “Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do. Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the US government built its first rudimentary nuclear power plant in …
Alan Gerard from Balanced Weather – “Over the weekend, there was a lot of talk on social media about the results from the 2025 version of the annual survey of federal employees done by the Partnership for Public Service about their workplace and the quality of services they feel their agency is providing to the …
The Wrap – New York Times Reporters to Return to Pentagon Monday. The paper’s journalists are expected to regain access Monday after a federal judge ruled that the Defense Department’s press policy is unconstitutional Washington Post – Pentagon will move press to external ‘annex’ following court loss over restricted access. The Department of Defense said …
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) published a new report on security based swap dealers (SBSDs) and updated statistics and data visualizations on initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on registered offerings, corporate bond offerings, Regulation A offerings, Regulation Crowdfunding offerings, Regulation D offerings, municipal advisors, transfer agents, SBSDs, and asset-backed …
Economic Forecasts and Projections: Fact Sheet. R47295, Leubsdorf, Ben – Economic projections (also called forecasts) are predictions about the future behavior of economic and financial indicators. They can help lawmakers in assessing the likelihood of key events such as recessions, addressing budget and economic challenges, and estimating the effects of policy changes. Many government agencies …
