states
8 briefs
Colorado Rewrites Its AI Law. Congress Is About to Overwrite All of Them.
After two years and a lawsuit from Elon Musk, Colorado passed a weaker AI accountability law. A House Republican bill would nullify it before it takes effect.
900 Health Facilities Are At Risk of Closing. States Are Trying to Fill a Hole They Cannot Fill.
The One Big Beautiful Bill cut $911 billion from Medicaid over ten years. The rural health fund it created to compensate is $50 billion over five years. The math does not balance.
The Medicaid Clock: Eight Months to Build What Arkansas Couldn't in Three Years
H.R. 1 mandated Medicaid work requirements effective January 1, 2027. States have less than 18 months to build the verification infrastructure. Nebraska starts first in May. The evidence from every prior work requirement program shows the same outcome: eligible people lose coverage, employment doesn't increase.
33 States Beat Ticketmaster. The DOJ Settled. The States Did Not.
A federal jury found Live Nation operated an illegal monopoly. The story is not about concert tickets. It is about what happens to antitrust enforcement when the federal government stops doing it.
Fifty Labs, No Standards
Trump wants a single federal AI law and no state interference. States are passing over 1,500 AI bills anyway. The result is not regulation. It is noise.
The Tariff That Outlived Its Legal Theory
Trump's 10% global tariff is standing on a 1974 law the Supreme Court already gutted, and a panel of judges just told him so.
Zero Federal AI Laws, 1,561 State Bills, and a White House Framework Nobody Has to Follow
The US has no binding AI law while the EU enforces its Act across 27 countries. The federal-state collision is now the biggest AI governance story in the world.
States Are Already Cutting Medicaid. Congress Hasn't Even Voted Yet.
Missouri, Montana, Virginia, and other states are preemptively eliminating Medicaid services — doula care, psychiatric units, dental coverage — in anticipation of federal cuts that have not yet been enacted. The cuts are happening twice: once in advance, and once when the bill passes.