enforcement

3 briefs

power 2026-04-25

Texas Can Now Arrest People for Crossing the Border. The Fifth Circuit Didn't Say That's Legal.

A 10-7 vote lifted the injunction against Texas SB4 on standing grounds. The constitutionality question was left entirely open. Texas is now enforcing a law that courts have not ruled constitutional.

power 2026-04-20

The EU AI Act Open-Source Exemption Exempts Almost Nothing

Full enforcement kicks in August 2, 2026. The April 10 Commission clarification that made headlines as a win for open-source developers leaves copyright policies, training-data summaries, and all frontier models fully in scope.

power 2026-04-18

The Law That Cannot Enforce Itself

The EU AI Act has been in force for two years. Not a single enforcement action has been taken against a deployed high-risk system. The systems it was designed to govern are still expanding.