Category «Legislation»

The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens

CAP: “The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation would require all Americans to prove their citizenship status by presenting documentation—in person—when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. Specifically, the legislation would require the vast majority of Americans to rely on a …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Condé Nast, other news orgs say AI firm stole articles, spit out “hallucinations”

Ars Technica: “Condé Nast and several other media companies sued the AI startup Cohere today, alleging that it engaged in “systematic copyright and trademark infringement” by using news articles to train its large language model. “Without permission or compensation, Cohere uses scraped copies of our articles, through training, real-time use, and in outputs, to power …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Digital Rights, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February

FDD: “Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. As readers of our Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker will know, this is a monthly publication in which FDD’s experts and scholars assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas …

Subjects: Defense, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

State Chief Data Officer (CDO) Tracker

“The State Chief Data Officer Tracker, created by the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Network and Data Labs teams, is a first-of-its-kind resource that tracks the evolving role of CDOs in state governments and their efforts to advance data-informed decision-making and collaboration across agencies. Data is a powerful tool for improving government transparency, accountability, and service …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker

“The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact are monitoring the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is the conservative movement’s blueprint for weakening our government and building an authoritarian presidency. To monitor the Trump administration’s regulatory and …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Records, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Federal Worker Union Sues to Stop Trump’s Resignation Offer

Bloomberg Law: “The nation’s largest federal employee union is suing to halt the Trump administration’s voluntary resignation offer, arguing agencies can’t promise to pay employee salaries before Congress sets aside the money. The American Federation of Government Employees is seeking to stop the Office of Personnel Management’s exit offer known as “Fork in the Road.” …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

CFPB halts work after Trump appoints Bessent as acting head

Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau halted much of its work to investigate and penalize corporate wrongdoing Monday, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — tapped to lead the watchdog on an acting basis — ordered an agency-wide review to “promote consistency” with the new Trump administration. Shortly after assuming the post, Bessent and …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Brookings Reg Tracking

“As the Trump administration returns to office for a second term with renewed deregulatory ambitions, the executive branch and its agencies are implementing significant policy changes. The Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets Regulatory Tracker (“Reg Tracker”) has relaunched to track major regulatory and executive actions taken by the administration, with a particular focus on …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Trump firings tee up broader legal clash over congressional power

Roll Call: “President Donald Trump’s firing of inspectors general and independent agency board members in the last week sets up another major legal clash over Congress’ power to put limits on the removal of federal officials, experts said. Since Friday, Trump removed more than a dozen inspectors general and Democratic members of the Equal Employment …

Subjects: Congress, Courts, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress

Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress | Congress.gov | Library of Congress – Search by your zipcode or address and the results will include the Members, name, website, address, telephone number, party affiliation, length of service, bio, contact information, and bill history associated with the member’s actions.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Career civil service across the government fired, programs suspended – list continues to grow

Via LLRX – Career civil service across the government fired, programs suspended – list continues to grow – Democracy, the Constitution, the Federal Government – All At Risk. Since his inauguration on January 20, 2025 Donald Trump has rapidly implemented key recommendations of Project 2025 using actions executed by non career government personnel as well conservative …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Economy, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

A Primer on the Impoundment Control Act

LawFare – “Refusals to undertake required spending are already a major theme of Trump’s second term, but the law limits such executive action. During his 2024 campaign, President Trump indicated that he planned to “restore executive branch impoundment authority to cut waste, stop inflation, and crush the Deep State.” Russell Vought, Trump’s pick to lead …

Subjects: Congress, Courts, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation