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CRS Report – Medicaid: Selected Resources for National, State, and Local Enrollment Data – “Medicaid is a means-tested entitlement program that finances the delivery of primary and acute medical services, as well as long-term services and supports (LTSS). Each state designs and administers its own Medicaid program within federal parameters. Medicaid is jointly financed by …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “The decision by nine of America’s biggest law firms to “bend the knee” to President Trump drew condemnation among lawyers across the political spectrum, including from attorneys inside the firms who quit or launched resistance campaigns. Others have chosen a less career-limiting form of rebellion. That would be offering …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making. “The opening act of Donald Trump’s second term was defined by the theatrical dismantling of much of the federal government by Elon Musk and his group of tech-savvy demolitionists. Everywhere you looked in those first 100 days, it …
Wired [no paywall] – “Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has cancelled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell sensitive information about …
CensorTrace – “Following the 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration, changes were made to the content available on certain public government websites and platforms. This website is an automated tool designed to monitor the removal of webpages from major U.S. government websites. It uses publicly available data from the Internet Archive to compare sitemaps from before and …
The New York Times – no paywall: Stephen I. Vladeck,professor of law at Georgetown and writes the One First weekly Supreme Court newsletter. It is often difficult to persuade anyone other than lawyers to care about the more technical, procedural minutiae of Supreme Court decisions. But Thursday’s oral argument in three Supreme Court cases challenging …
FT.com no paywall: “It was never meant to be $2tn. Elon Musk’s vow last year to cut almost a third of the annual federal budget, made in front of a frenzied Maga crowd during a Trump rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden, came as a surprise even to the event’s organisers. “The deal was …
The Verge no paywall: Ripping off content to train AI wasn’t going to fly with either MAGA populists or MAGA media. What initially appeared to be a power play by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to take over the US Copyright Office by having Donald Trump remove the officials in charge …
Bloomberg Law [no paywall]: “The FDA’s public posting of warning letters from its food division stalled after the agency temporarily fired staff to review them, making the center overdue on notices that flag compliance violations in seafood, produce, and other foods. At least a dozen letters warning companies on significant violations of federal requirements have …
FT.com no paywall – An institution that survived British torching in 1814 is now facing a new onslaught – “An institution that survived British torching in 1814 is now facing a new onslaught. The Library of Congress is a reference-only research library, its collections being built through legal deposit legislation, passed by Congress. A History …
First Branch Forecast: “Congress’s Librarian, Fired by the President The presidential firing of Dr. Hayden raises serious questions about legislative independence. On Thursday, President Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Dr. Hayden became the 14th Librarian of Congress in 2016. In that role, she oversaw the Library of Congress, a major legislative support agency. …
Data is Plural: “The Deportation Data Project, run by a team of academics and lawyers, “collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets.” These include data from border apprehensions, deportations, Title 42 expulsions, ICE arrests and detentions, ICE-operated flights, and more. Some of the data files come directly from the government, while others …
