On a sleepy Sunday night at the mall in Greenwood, Ind., a gunman opened fire just after closing time. He killed three people and injured others before an armed “good Samaritan” killed him. As the mayors of Highland Park, Uvalde, Buffalo — and now Greenwood — have learned the hard way, mayors play an outsized role in a city’s response to a mass shooting. Yet, city leaders rarely think about their role, let alone prepare for it, until the unimaginable happens.
That’s why my colleagues and I researched six cities that have responded to a mass shooting. We interviewed mayors, city staffers, and law enforcement officials who responded to mass shootings in six cities: Orlando, El Paso, Pittsburgh, Dayton, Parkland, and San Bernardino. Our sole focus was on the role of the mayor and his or her team.
We used their harrowing experience, combined with public health resources developed by the CDC, the FBI, and FEMA, to develop the Mass Shooting Protocol, a checklist city leaders can use during the first 24 hours after a mass shooting. We also developed the Mass Shooting Playbook, a comprehensive resource city leaders can use to prepare, to respond, and to help their community recover from a mass shooting.
We learned that the mayor’s responsibilities start when the first shots are fired. Put simply, while law enforcement seeks to neutralize the threat, city leaders must act quickly to meet the urgent needs of their community.
First, as the principal elected representative, the mayor serves as the city’s “communicator-in-chief.” Traditionally, the public looks to the mayor for public safety assurances, updates about the victims, referrals to resources, and messages of healing and unity. The need for words of comfort from a trusted official after an unspeakable tragedy is the reason Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer insisted he speak first, before FBI officials, at the first press conference following the Pulse attack.
Second, as then-Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s response to the Tree of Life shooting demonstrated, city leaders must ensure the needs of the victims and family members are met. Such support usually starts by standing up a Family Reunification Center — a physical space to reunite friends and family, to provide grief counseling for those who have lost their loved ones, and to keep the families separate from the press. That effort will be followed by establishing a Family Assistance Center to provide more comprehensive services to victims, families, and friends, including referrals to mental health care, legal services, victim compensation, funeral services, childcare, and so on. This is a major undertaking for a mayor’s office, and requires planning, partners and significant resources.
Third, following a mass shooting, community-wide trauma is a significant, lasting public health problem. It’s usually up to the mayor to find ways to address it, often by organizing vigils and arranging for long-term mental health services. The need for these critical services will continue for years, long after the nation has moved on. El Paso Mayor Dee Margo’s ability to establish a long-term Resiliency Center continues to be a key aspect of the recovery of his community following the Walmart shooting.
These are just a few of the responsibilities that fall to locally elected officials when a mass shooting takes place. They are also responsible for managing the legal consequences, supporting the business community, and seeking funds to recover some of the enormous cost of the response.
Congress recently passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which provides significant resources to reduce gun violence. But the Act does nothing to help mayors respond to mass shootings.
Businesses, schools, and other concerned Americans can help their local elected officials by sharing the Protocol with them and urging them to plan their response to a mass shooting, just as law enforcement officials do. The Biden administration can lend additional support by ensuring mayors have the technical support, training, and the resources they need before tragedy strikes. As the former mayor of Dayton, Nan Whaley, often says to other leaders, “It isn’t if but when. You need to prepare.”
Sarah C. Peck is Director of UnitedOnGuns, an initiative of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law. She co-authored the Mass Shooting Protocol & Playbook: A Resource for U.S. Mayors and City Managers.
A vote on codifying federal protections for same-sex marriage demonstrated a sharp political evolution for Republicans on the issue over the last decade, with nearly four dozen House GOP members voting in favor of the legislation.
The House GOP Conference gave members breathing room by not whipping votes against the bill, which Democrats brought up in response to concerns about the Supreme Court reversing course on the case that protected the right for same-sex couples to marry
Titled the Respect for Marriage Act, the bill would also repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage for federal purposes as being between one man and one woman.
“I’m sure we’ll probably be split” on the bill, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said of the conference on Tuesday morning, noting that he does not formally whip the conference for or against most bills.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), vice chair of the House GOP conference, said that the whip team communicated to members that the vote was “a matter of personal conscience.”
In the end, 47 House Republicans voted for the bill, including two members of House GOP leadership: Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Emmer (Minn.).
“It’s the right vote, and I’m proud to vote for it,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.).
Just a decade ago, the 2012 national Republican Party platform asserted support for a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
The vote also cemented an evolution for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who expressed opposition to same-sex marriage in 2013 despite her sister Mary being married to another woman. Cheney expressed regret for that position in an interview last year.
The number of House GOP votes, accounting for about a fifth of the conference, bodes well for the legislation’s chance of passing in the Senate, where it would need at least 10 Republican votes to pass.Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Monday expressed optimism about the bill’s chances of reaching the 60-vote threshold necessary to pass in the chamber.
Though the majority of House Republican conference voted against the bill, Republicans against it largely did not center their arguments on the acceptability of same-sex marriage. Instead, they focused on the feeling that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi aimed to use the vote as a political tool in the midterms.
The bill was a response to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the case that overturned the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade, that suggested the court “reconsider” its substantive due process precedents – including in the cases that legalized same-sex marriage, Obergefell v. Hodges.
Republicans countered that the majority opinion in Dobbs said that its overturning Roe should not cast doubt on precedents like Obergefell. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said on the House floor that the bill was a “further effort to intimidate the Court.”
Others, like Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), said they were against the bill because they think recognition of same-sex marriage should be left up to the states.
Several Republicans, including Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) and Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), expressed hesitation on Tuesday morning about voting for the bill due to the political maneuvering of Democrats and the speediness with which it was brought to a vote without going through committees. But later on Tuesday evening, they voted for it.
Bacon said that he thinks many Republicans have softened on the issue of same-sex marriage. His own decision on how to vote on the bill was a “little bit of a tug-of-war” due to his religious convictions, but weighed that against the fact that same-sex marriage had been legal nationally for seven years, and that the country is not going to go backwards.
“I have brothers who are gay,” Bacon said. “I have a view that people have a right to live their lives the way they want.”
The Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing LGBT conservatives, said that Democrats’ aim to get Republicans on the record on the issue was a reason to vote for the bill rather than against it.
“Democrats, desperate to deflect from the disastrous leadership of the Biden-Harris Administration, are trying to use this election year vote to paint the GOP as out of step with the rest of the country,” Log Cabin Republicans President Charles Moran said in a statement. “There are critical fights to be had in the coming months on issues like the Left’s assault on Title IX and gender identity lessons in kindergarten classrooms, but Republican voters increasingly agree marriage equality is not one of them.”
Support for same-sex marriage among U.S. adults reached 71 percent in a May 2022 Gallup poll, the highest percentage since the company started measuring support for it in 1996. Gallup found that a majority, 55 percent, of Republicans supported same-sex marriage in 2021.
Weekly chuchgoers are the primary demographic likely to oppose same-sex marriage, Gallup found, with 58 percent in that group opposed.
That religious segment is still present among GOP members and their voter base.
In 2019 and 2020, former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) was censured by some local GOP committees, which is office at the time said was retaliation against him officiating a same-sex wedding.
The congressman who replaced Riggleman, Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), voted against the bill.
“I’m a biblical conservative, I believe in God’s definition of marriage. And, you know, God’s perfect design is one man for one woman for a lifetime,” Good said. “I don’t think the Supreme Court should have tried to make law on that issue.”
American businessman George Soros has donated $1 million to Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke’s (D) campaign.
The Texas Ethics Commission confirmed Soros’ donation to O’Rourke’s “Beto for Texas” political action committee (PAC) in its filing report published on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for O’Rourke’s campaign confirmed Soros’s donation to the gubernatorial candidate to the Hill.
The 91-year-old billionaire made the campaign donation a day before the Supreme Court’s decision last month to overturn Roe v. Wade, which the landmark 1973 decision that established abortion as a constitutional right.
Soros slammed the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, saying in a tweet that the decision “diminishes human rights.”
Texas is among several states to enact a trigger law banning abortions following the Supreme Court’s ruling.
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn #RoeVWade ends federal protections for abortion, diminishes human rights, and greatly threatens reproductive care,” Soros wrote in his tweet. “We have invested in reproductive rights organizations that are fighting back at this moment.”
A University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs poll released last week shows that O’Rourke, who unsuccessfully tried to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in 2018, is trailing five points behind Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in the state’s gubernatorial race.
The poll also found that five percent of Abbott supporters and eight percent of O’Rourke supporters said they would consider changing their vote for November’s election.
Respondents to the poll cited inflation, public safety concerns, government spending and taxes, health care costs and economic growth as important issues in making their choice in the gubernatorial race.
The Secret Service on Tuesday failed to provide Congress with any new agency text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, informing the House committee investigating last year’s Capitol attack that the agency would continue digging to determine if any could be recovered.
The news was a blow to the Jan. 6 investigators, who had subpoenaed the Secret Service last week for texts they were hoping could provide new details about the activities of former President Trump on the day a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol. They gave the agency a Tuesday-morning deadline to comply.
But Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) said the trove of new communications delivered by the agency excluded the texts they were seeking from Jan. 6 and the day before. Those messages were the focus of intense interest by the committee after investigators were notified by a government watchdog last week that the texts were “erased” during a device replacement program.
“We received a letter today that did provide us with a lot of documents and some data. However, we did not receive the additional text messages that we were looking for,” Murphy said in an interview with MSNBC.
“They moved ahead with their efforts to migrate the devices and the data, and their process – as explained to us – was simply to leave it to the agent to determine whether or not there was anything on their phones worth saving that was necessary to save for federal records,” she continued. “And as a result, today they did not receive any texts from their agents when they made that transition that was flagged for preservation.”
Lawmakers have been optimistic about possibly recovering texts after meeting last Friday with Joseph Cuffari, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security (OIG), who had informed the committee of the “erased” texts several days earlier — a charge the Secret Service has denied.
“One thing I’ve learned in this process is that when one evidentiary door closes, another one will open and we’ll find a way,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told reporters Tuesday.
But investigators have also been indignant that the Secret Service, which was in charge of Trump’s security on Jan. 6, might have deleted material evidence surrounding the rampage that day, which marked the first time the Capitol had been sacked in more than two centuries.
“Without commenting on the specifics of that situation, I will say that I would be shocked and horrified if anyone in a position of leadership oversaw the destruction of evidence related to the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Raskin said.
The Secret Service had forecast that they would have little additional information to offer, with agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi telling The Hill Monday that there were no “hidden messages” the agency was concealing or anything else officials are “holding out” from the panel.
He said the bulk of what would turned over to the committee are documents similar to the 800,000 they’ve already provided. But he said the agency would also detail their policy around refraining from using text messages to communicate due to security concerns.
“It’s hard for people to understand, but we do not communicate via text message. It is in policy that you do not conduct business via text message,” he said.
The Secret Service has continually denied that they maliciously lost any text messages.
“There’s no reason for us to say the texts were lost. I mean, how do you know that those people texted? They were told to upload their official records, and they did. So this is partly what we’re going to communicate to the committee, all of the data that we have. People say texts were lost. How do you know texts were sent?” Guglielmi told The Hill.
Still, that answer was unsatisfying to those leading the investigation, who have accused Trump of not only instigating the march on the Capitol, but also of wanting to lead it. They were hoping the Secret Service messages might be able to shed further light on his intentions to join the thousands of supporters who sought to block Congress from certifying his election defeat.
“They received four requests from congressional committees on January 16, to preserve records and they had this planned migration for the 25th, I believe, of January, and nobody along the way stopped and thought, ‘Well, maybe we shouldn’t do the migration of data and of the devices until we are able to fulfill these four requests from Congress,’” Murphy said.
The National Archives on Tuesday upped the ante, demanding the Secret Service conduct their own review of why they are unable to account for the messages.
“If it is determined that any text messages have been improperly deleted (regardless of their relevance to the OIG/Congressional inquiry of the events on January 6, 2021), then the Secret Service must send NARA a report within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter with a report documenting the deletion,” Laurence Brewer, chief records officer for the U.S. government, wrote in a letter to the custodian of records at DHS.
“This report must include a complete description of the records affected, a statement of the exact circumstances surrounding the deletion of messages, a statement of the safeguards established to prevent further loss of documentation, and details of all agency actions taken to salvage, retrieve, or reconstruct the records,” Brewer continued.
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Anthony Fauci has put to rest any speculation that he might be retiring, saying he plans to continue working even after he leaves his government position behind.
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Fauci: ‘I’m not going to retire’
Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, clarified on Tuesday that he does not plan to retire, though he has been considering when he will step down from his current government position.
After Politico on Monday published an interview with Fauci, 81, in which he said he did not expect to stay on in his current position by the end of Biden’s current term, a frenzy of media speculation arose around the veteran immunologist’s potential retirement.
Speaking at The Hill’s “Future of Health Care Summit,” Fauci said definitively that he is not retiring.
For the record: “I’m not going to retire. No, no, I’m not going to retire. I may step down from my current position at some time,” Fauci told The Hill contributing editor Steve Clemons.
He said that he had been asked if he would continue working for the federal government if former President Trump won in the 2024 presidential election. Trump is widely expected to announce his intentions for the 2024 election later this year.
“I said a very innocent but true thing. I said whether it’s Donald Trump or it’s Joe Biden’s second term, I don’t intend to be in my current position in January of 2025,” Fauci said.
Fauci’s future:“What happens between now and then I have not decided, but the one thing I do know is that I have other things that I want to do in a professional way that I want to have the capability — while I still have the energy and the passion to do them.”
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee on Tuesday unanimously voted to recommend the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, giving a green light to a fourth shot to fight the virus.
Limited impact: The Novavax vaccine is not expected to play a major role in the U.S. vaccination campaign, given that it is intended for the initial doses, not as a booster, and most people have already received their initial vaccinations.
Will it sway some unvaccinated? Some hope that it could play a role persuading the vaccine-hesitant to get their shots. The Novavax vaccine uses a more traditional vaccine technology, compared to the mRNA technology used by Pfizer and Moderna. Therefore, it could influence those who had reservations about the Pfizer and Moderna products.
Following the panel’s 12-0 vote, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky will have the final step to sign off on the vaccine.
The Biden administration previously announced it was purchasing 3.2 million doses of Novavax.
“We remain committed to working to ensure that anyone eligible who wants a vaccine can get one,” Jason Roos, a Department of Health and Human Services official, said earlier this month in making the purchase.
GAWANDE: USAID COVID RESPONSE QUICKLY RUNNING OUT OF MONEY
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s global coronavirus response will run out of money in the coming weeks without new funding from Congress, USAID Assistant Administrator for Global Health Atul Gawande warned on Tuesday.
“We are grinding our operations to a halt,” Gawande said at The Hill’s Future of Health Care Summit. “The COVID task force will have to go away in the next couple of months.”
As Americans adjust to a new reality of living with COVID-19 variants — aided by vaccines and treatments — Gawande told The Hill contributing editor Steve Clemons that leaders must not lose sight of the importance of helping address the spread of the virus overseas.
Gawande said funding for the task force ran out last month, and the agency has been lobbying lawmakers since December to reup the financing at a minimum of $5 billion. So far, however, Congress has delivered none.
“In places like the United States, we now have the tools … to disconnect the cases from the deaths so far,” Gawande said at the event, sponsored by AdvaMed, Butterfly, Emergent and Protect the Promise. “Those rapid diagnostic tests for people in most of sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti and other parts of the world … they’re not there.”
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS THINKS COVID WILL NEVER GO AWAY: POLL
A large majority of Americans believe that COVID-19 will always be around, according to new polling data released on Tuesday, with pandemic pessimism appearing to be rising — along with recent case counts.
The Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index found that 78 percent of Americans surveyed agreed with the statement “We will never fully be rid of the coronavirus in my lifetime.” This trend was consistent for Democrats, Republicans and independents.
At the same time, 29 percent of respondents said they believed that the pandemic was over, indicating there was some overlap between those who believe the SARS-CoV-2 virus will never go away but also consider pandemic conditions to be over.
After several months of stagnation, the U.S. average COVID-19 case rate has once again begun to rise as the omicron BA.5 subvariant has risen to become the dominant strain in the country. While infections are rising, pandemic fatigue has been noted to be at an all-time high, with a minority of people now willing to take up mitigation efforts.
The Axios-Ipsos poll noted that only 36 percent of respondents said they wear a mask when outside their home, the lowest rate observed since the beginning of the pandemic. The same percentage of respondents said they never wear a mask when outside their home, a 14 percent jump from this same time last year.
Caitlin Bernard, the Indiana OB/GYN who provided services to a 10-year-old Ohio girl who traveled out of state to receive an abortion, filed for damages against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) Tuesday.
Bernard claimed Rokita made “false and misleading” statements about her to both local and national media.
When news of Bernard’s actions rose to national attention, Rokita publicly said on platforms like Fox News that he intended on investigating whether or not Bernard had filed the proper notices for abortions under Indiana state law.
“We’re gathering the evidence as we speak, and we’re going to fight this to the end, including looking at her licensure if she failed to report. And in Indiana it’s a crime … to intentionally not report,” Rokita said on Fox News.
During the same interview last week, Rokita claimed that Bernard had “a history of failing to report” abortions and called her an “abortion activist acting as a doctor.”
The allegations: “Mr. Rokita’s false and misleading statements about alleged misconduct by Dr. Bernard in her profession constitute defamation per se,” Bernard’s claim stated. “To the extent that these statements exceed the general scope of Mr. Rokita’s authority as Indiana’s Attorney General, the statement forms the basis of an actionable defamation claim against Mr. Rokita individually.”
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Judge J. Michelle Childs to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s second-highest court, giving President Biden a promising option to nominate to the Supreme Court should another vacancy arise.
The Senate approved Childs by a vote of 64 to 34. Fifteen Republicans voted for the nominee.
If Democrats lose control of the Senate in the midterm elections and Biden has a chance to fill another Supreme Court vacancy, Childs is a judge who could win bipartisan support.
Whether or not that happens, she will have an influential role on the D.C. Circuit, which now has five judges appointed by Democratic presidents and four appointed by Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) praised Childs’s confirmation as a significant accomplishment.
“It’s one of the most important votes we’re going to take all this year,” he said. “The D.C. Circuit is so important.
“It’s probably the second-most important circuit in the country,” he added, noting the Supreme Court takes only about 75 cases a year. “So loads of decisions particularly those related to government and Congress and balance of power go through the D.C. Circuit.”
Childs was on Biden’s shortlist of potential nominees to the Supreme Court earlier this year after Justice Stephen Breyer announced his plans to retire.
Childs, a U.S. district judge for South Carolina, had the strong support of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) as Biden mulled who to pick to replace Breyer.
But Biden instead nominated Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who had the strong support of Democratic activist groups. Childs ran into opposition from labor leaders.
Biden’s choice of Jackson over Childs angered Graham, who said he could have mustered 10 Republican votes for the South Carolina judge. Only three Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Mitt Romney (Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted for Jackson.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to the Senate GOP leadership team who voted for Childs on Tuesday, said her confirmation to the D.C. Circuit positions her well for a future Supreme Court nomination.
“It’s a pretty well-established pathway, but obviously it depends on a lot of circumstances we can’t guess about, but it probably doesn’t hurt her,” he said.
Cornyn added that “it’s not the usual path” for a D.C. circuit nominee to come from a district court within another circuit’s jurisdiction.
Netflix announced it lost its largest number of subscribers in the last three months on Tuesday, though the figure beat its expectations.
According to the streaming service’s quarterly earnings report, Netflix lost 970,000 subscribers, beating its originally forecasted 2 million subscriber loss in an April shareholders letter.
Netflix stock jumped after the release of the better-than-expected earnings on Tuesday.
But the company, still reeling after a challenging year and growing competition, said it will push forward with plans to add in an ad-supported model and features designed to crack down on account sharing.
Netflix said it is planning to launch an ad-supported tier early next year. The company announced last week it would be partnering with Microsoft as it adds in the ad-supported plan for users.
Netflix said it is also aiming to roll out plans for users to pay to share accounts with others outside of their household in 2023. The company started to test some of those features in Latin America earlier this year in an effort to monetize an estimated 100 million households that are using Netflix without paying by sharing passwords with other account holders.
On the content side, Netflix said it will continue to focus on offering “big movies direct-to-Netflix” and releasing shows that let users “binge watch” without waiting weekly for new episodes.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings attributed the better-than-anticipated subscriber loss to success on content release, namely pointing to the release of “Stranger Things.”
“If there was a single thing we might say ‘Stranger Things’ but again we are talking about losing 1 million instead of losing 2 million. So our excitement is tempered by the less bad results,” Hastings said on a call about the quarterly earnings.
The fourth season, which was released at the end of May, generated 1.3 billion hours viewed, making it the company’s biggest season of English TV ever.
The release of the latest season also re-ignited interest in past episodes, with seasons one through three having a greater than five-fold increase in viewing in the month after the release of season four.
On Wednesday, July 20, the United States Senate will hold a hearing for the next director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). To address the unprecedented threats artificial intelligence may pose to Americans’ civil rights and privacy, the Senate must urge the nominee to commit to releasing a Bill of Rights for an Automated Society.
Last year, top OSTP officials proclaimed that the office is developing principles for artificial intelligence to guard against the perils of powerful technologies — with input from the public. They argued that the deployment of artificial intelligence has “led to serious problems.” They explained that “training machines based on earlier examples can embed past prejudice and enable present-day discrimination.” They warned that hiring tools, for example, can reject applicants who are dissimilar from existing staff despite being well-qualified.
The OSTP reached out to the public, organized listening sessions, and gathered public comments. Our organizations actively participated in that process. The White House blog posts emphasized the importance of the initiative.
When the president’s top science advisor first proposed the AI Bill of Rights, we were optimistic that the federal agency could bypass a slow-moving Congress and act with the urgency this issue demands. After all, how can we continue to entrust opaque algorithms with high-stakes decisions if we don’t establish guidelines for how they are developed and deployed?
Delay is no longer an option.
We represent a diverse coalition of advocates, many of whom know firsthand why this must be a priority. Computer scientists are on the front lines of AI development and have uncovered a wide range of problems, from algorithmic bias to unexplainable and accountable outcomes. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two leading experts on Artificial Intelligence, wrote recently, “The race toward deploying larger and larger models without sufficient guardrails, regulation, understanding of how they work, or documentation of the training data has further accelerated across tech companies.”
With an AI Bill of Rights in place, we could finally begin to make progress. Last year OSTP officials outlined several key elements: a right to know when and how AI is influencing a decision that affects your civil rights; freedom from being subjected to AI that hasn’t been carefully audited; freedom from pervasive surveillance, and a right to meaningful recourse.
They also proposed several enforcement actions: the federal government could refuse to buy products that fail to respect these rights; contractors could be required to adhere to the AI Bill of Rights, and new laws and regulations could be adopted.
These provisions could establish guardrails for the federal government’s use of new technologies. The AI Bill of Rights would also set the stage for future action — from passing the Algorithmic Accountability Act to establishing an agency like the Food and Drug Administration entirely for AI — so that we can proceed with regulation that has real teeth. As the European Union and other governments around the world move to pass data privacy and human rights protections for the digital age, there is no excuse for the U.S. to lag behind.
Behind a veneer of objectivity and neutrality, algorithms can be dangerous. At the same time, algorithms can be a force for good. New AI techniques have made dramatic advances in medical science and could also reduce the risk of biased decision making. Human-centered AI is within reach, but it requires meaningful oversight and proactive governance so we can ensure that such applications of AI are the norm.
As the president’s former science advisor wrote last year, “It’s unacceptable to create AI systems that will harm many people . . . Americans have a right to expect better. Powerful technologies should be required to respect our democratic values and abide by the central tenet that everyone should be treated fairly.”
The next director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy must make the AI Bill of Rights a priority. And the Senate must see to it that the current nominee makes that commitment prior to confirmation.
The time to act on the AI Bill of Rights is now.
Marc Rotenberg is the founder and president of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, a global network of AI policy experts and advocates. Sneha Revanur is the founder and president of Encode Justice, a global, youth-powered movement for human-centered artificial intelligence.
The House passed a bill on Tuesday to protect marriage equality, a direct response to an opinion from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last month that called for reversing multiple decisions that enshrined LGBTQ rights.
The legislation, titled the Respect for Marriage Act, passed in a 267-157 vote, with 47 Republicans joining all Democrats in supporting the measure. Seven Republicans did not vote.
The measure, which faces a shaky future in the 50-50 Senate, calls for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a bill former President Clinton signed into law in 1996 that recognized marriage as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.” The measure referred to the word spouse as “a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”
DOMA had passed through both chambers of Congress with bipartisan support.
If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the Respect for Marriage Act would also require that individuals be considered married if they were wed in a state where marriage was legal. The provision, according to the House Judiciary Committee, ensures that same-sex and interracial couples are treated equally to other married individuals at the federal level.
Additionally, the bill gives the attorney general authority to launch civil action against any individual who violates it and allows any individual to take civil action if their rights as laid out in the bill are breached.
House passage of the bill comes less than one month after the Supreme Court issued a ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that protected access to abortion as a constitutional right.
Thomas penned a concurring opinion to the decision that called on the court to reconsider all substantive due process precedents established by the bench, including Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 case that barred states from outlawing consensual gay sex, and Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling that made same-sex marriage a constitutional right.
In the majority opinion, however, Justice Samuel Alito said that by striking down Roe, the bench was not calling for reversing other rulings.
House Democrats introduced the Respect for Marriage Act and brought it to the floor for a vote as a preemptive step to protect LGBTQ rights in case the court moves to chip away at the two cases in the future.
Last week, the House cleared two bills to protect access to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.
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(NewsNation) — Friends and family of Ivana Trump will gather Wednesday at New York City’s St. Vincent Ferrer Church to celebrate her legacy.
At the age of 73, the former model was found dead near stairs in her apartment last week. A medical examiner ruled Trump’s death an accident. She died of “blunt impact injuries” to her torso, according to an official release from the medical examiner’s office.
Ivana was the first wife of former President Trump. The couple was married from 1977 to 1992 and had three children together, as well as nine grandchildren.
Donald and Melania Trump landed in New York City on Monday night and will be in attendance at the funeral, senior story producer Paula Froelich with NewsNation’s “Banfield” confirmed.
There are rumors that Melania won’t attend the funeral.
“If Melania shows, and that’s a big ‘if,’ she’ll be there just to support Donald,” Froelich said.
Froelich believes that the funeral will be “fabulous” and compared it to Joan Rivers’ funeral, which attracted stars including Hugh Jackman, Whoopi Goldberg, Kelly Osbourne and Sarah Jessica Parker.
“Everyone in New York was there. Her coffin was led out by the New York police marching band, and they closed down 5th Avenue for it.”
Businessman Donald Trump and his wife Ivana appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 1988. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
Before the world knew Ivana as Mrs. Trump, she was a competitive skier, starting as a child, in Czechoslovakia.
During an interview with the New York Post, Ivanka Trump said that her mom Ivana was a “world-class athlete” before marriage.
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Instead of bringing flowers to the funeral, the Trump family has requested that guests donate to Big Dog Ranch Rescue.
“Ivana was philanthropically involved with many charities throughout her entire life, but always remained steadfast and passionate in her love for animals. In lieu of flowers, we kindly ask you to support Ivana in her mission to help dogs and donate to Big Dog Rescue Ranch,” the donation page reads.
