Law, Courts & Regulations
In August 2018, FBI Director Christopher Wray outlined the agency’s approach to election security in advance of that year’s midterm election. Key to the FBI’s work, he said, were the bureau’s relation...
Today, we’re bringing you an episode of Arbiters of Truth , our series on the information ecosystem. On March 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri , concerning the potentia...
In Murthy v. Missouri , one vital piece of context has gone unacknowledged: Different administrations operate differently. The Supreme Court on March 18 heard oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri , a c...
Today's Lawfare Daily is Lawfare's annual "Ask Us Anything" mailbag episode where Lawfare contributors answered listener-submitted questions. Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Executive...
The Situation on Monday mourned the loss of the Voice of America. Today, some useful advice for those readers who want to violate court orders. There seem to be a lot of people out there these days wh...
Governments around the world have been developing ways for public-goods-creating entities to access compute. In 2024, California was home to an intense debate over SB-1047 , a controversial artificial...
The timing of society’s legal response to artificial intelligence (AI) matters, but not in the way one might think. Time is not of the essence. The best policy emerges from learned experience. Yet, wh...
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower, Tyler McBrien, and Peter Harrell to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including: In object lessons, Tyler bi...
In object lessons, Eric marked the Jewish New Year with a novel recommendation: “ To Rise Again at a Decent Hour ,” by Joshua Ferris, a midlife-crisis tale woven through Judaism, baseball, and dentist...
Last month, the California senate passed Senate Bill 1047 , the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act. It looks like it may soon become law. If enacted, the bill w...
Unlike source code, which humans use to express ideas to each other, model weights function primarily as machine-readable instructions. In response to last year’s executive order on artificial intelli...
The Justice Department’s National Security Division, not the special counsel, unveils a potentially new front in Russian election interference. President Trump had barely finished with what Sen. John ...
Two weeks before Election Day, a video began to circulate on social media purporting to show presidential ballots marked for Donald Trump being destroyed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Quickly, the Bu...
In November 2023, a new media company offering video content from “fearless voices” opened its doors. “Uncensored, Unapologetic, Unafraid,” read Tenet Media’s slogan under a launch video featuring foo...
On Dec. 11, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Ensuring A National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” aimed at preempting state regulation of artificial intelligence...
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Alan Rozenshtein, Eric Columbus, and Molly Roberts for a deep dive into two of the week’s big national security news stories: In object lessons, E...
A puzzling thing keeps happening in the artificial intelligence (AI) regulation space. Writers whom I like and admire argue publicly that near-future AI systems could cause large-scale disasters—killi...
As Congress debates how to regulate artificial intelligence (AI)—or whether to regulate it at all—state legislatures are pushing their own proposals. In the 2024 legislative season, states have consid...
If this growing patchwork of parochial regulatory policies takes root, it could undermine U.S. AI innovation. The United States is approaching a troubling technology policy milestone: One thousand art...
Listen to Bullock discuss the AI Whistleblower Protection Act on Lawfare Daily . In May 2024, OpenAI found itself at the center of a national controversy when news broke that the AI lab was pressuring...