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Data Center Bans Won't Stop AI. They'll Barely Slow It Down.
Data Centers Even still, data center moratoriums are not an optimal policy for the pro-AI camp. | (Emily Curiel/TNS/Newscom.) With a contentious midterm election less than a week away, one cause has unified voters and candidates across the political spectrum: slowing down AI. A friend of mine who directs tens of millions of dollars in midterm election spending says he's never seen voter salience of an issue—AI, broadly—increase so quickly.
Data Center Bans Won't Stop AI. They'll Barely Slow It Down.
With a contentious midterm election less than a week away, one cause has unified voters and candidates across the political spectrum: slowing down AI. A friend of mine who directs tens of millions of dollars in midterm election spending says he's never seen voter salience of an issue—AI, broadly—increase so quickly. In July, Gallup found that 39 percent of Americans thought AI does more harm than good, up from 31 percent in 2025.
“Take Care” and “Break a Leg”: The Internal Contradiction of Chief Justice Roberts’s Theory of Standing
Chief Justice Roberts’ dissent in the White House ballroom case (National Park Service v. National Trust, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), per curiam and Roberts, C.J., dissenting; 40 U.S.C. § 8106; 3 U.S.C. § 105(d)(1)) turned some heads. For its positioning more than its actual position. To wit, The New York Times characterizes him as being in “an Unusual Spot” (“On Trump’s Ballroom, Chief Justice Finds Himself in an Unusual Spot: In Dissent,” Sep. 1, 2026).
The CRA and its Discontents
A recent essay at the Harvard Law Review blog on the Congressional Review Act (CRA) demonstrates an earnest interest in the arcane corner of public policy where administrative law, statutory interpretation, and legislative procedure all pile up. Further, by offering a constructive reform it does something most of the peanut gallery (myself a season ticketholder) frequently avoid. It also betrays common misunderstandings of the CRA.
The Regulatory Three-Body Problem
[Pardon the physics metaphor, but it’s on-the-nose as the Appendix sets up a model that with modification has no closed-form solution] The textbook description of federal administrative law goes as follows: Since all lawmaking authority is vested by the Constitution in Congress, Congress first passes a law.
Void Where Not Prohibited: The Vacancy at the Heart of Federal Vacancies Law
“Surrender, surrender, but don’t give yourself away” –Cheap Trick (1978) Thomas Berry recently flagged the Federal Vacancies Reform Act‘s front-end problem: eligibility so broad that “more than 350 federal officials [can] fill any vacant office, regardless of qualifications.” That’s a sufficient condition to amend the law, and Berry’s suggestion limiting acting “all acting officers, including those from the category of Senate-confirmed officials, must be from the same department or agency as...
Congress needs to assert authority over government regulations
It’s now effectively illegal to manufacture or sell incandescent light bulbs in the United States, thanks to a Biden administration regulation setting minimum efficiency standards that went into effect in August. The change is just one illuminating example of how government regulations dictate how Americans live. PVC pipes could be next. But more rules are coming, whether the American people or their representatives in Congress like it or not.
When ‘follow the science’ meets data nationalism
The FDA’s increasing tendency to follow data only up to the water’s edge, a kind of “data nationalism,” may harm American health and future pandemic preparedness. It causes delays in drug approvals, increases the cost of drug development, and denies patients access to potentially life-saving treatments.
Why Congress Needs to Improve Its Regulatory Oversight | National Review
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle should strengthen the legislative branch's capacity to oversee regulations and restore the proper balance of governing power under the Constitution.
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