A uniform federal standard for AI can help ensure American leadership, protect national security, stimulate innovation and investment, and create jobs. Kudos to President Trump for making this a key public policy priority. /9

In his seminal 1982 article The Two Faces of Federalism, Justice Scalia similarly took the position that conservatives ought to embrace Hamiltonian-style preemption to deregulate interstate communications systems (there, cable networks). He concluded that, in such cases, “the

These costs fall disproportionately on emerging technologies and new entrants to the market. In 1996, Congress understood that then-nascent broadband networks needed protection from patchwork state regulation to flourish and ensure American leadership in the Internet race. Today,

As a result, states like California and New York engaged in a “race to the bottom” to impose utility-style regulation and price controls on broadband. Because broadband service is inherently interstate, it is difficult if not impossible to offer consumers one set of terms and

When we at the FCC repealed the Obama-era rules and returned to a “light-touch” framework, we likewise included a Preemption Directive that would prevent a patchwork of inconsistent state rules. Unfortunately, and wrongly in my view, the D.C. Circuit decided that the FCC lacked

Then, for many years, there was bipartisan consensus that modern interstate broadband networks should be subject to a “light-touch” federal regulatory regime, coupled with state and local preemption. Even the heavy-handed Obama-era “net neutrality” rules made clear that the

The Interstate Commerce Act, and later the Communications Act, codified this common-sense intuition that national industries (like the railroad or the phone network) should be governed primarily by a single, uniform federal framework. 3/

The Constitution provides Congress with the power to regulate interstate commerce, which from the earliest days of the Republic was understood to embrace truly national industries, like transportation, where patchwork state regulation could hamper innovation and investment (see

Yesterday, President Trump called for a uniform federal standard to ensure American leadership in AI. Here’s why conservatives should support a national standard, drawing lessons from the “net neutrality” wars and Justice Scalia. 1/

Not bad for second day on the job

Beautiful venue last night for the @JoinFAI gala. Great conversation with @BrendanCarrFCC and others. Congrats to @ZacharyGraves and team; hope it becomes an annual tradition.

Great to see my friend and former FCC colleague @NathanLeamerDC leading this effort to create a nationwide policy framework for AI

This is well-deserved recognition of the great work my friend @andrealucasEEOC has been doing at @USEEOC. Congrats to Chair Lucas!

A little niche (and a little British) this year, but presenting “The Tiger Who Came to Tea” #Halloween

Happy Halloween, from President Nixon and me 🎃

Congrats to Jonathan on his confirmation! He is the perfect choice to assist @SecretaryLCD to deliver results for the American worker and advance the rule of law.

Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good

Call the neighbors, wake the kids. I sat down with my friend and FCC alum @SayreEvan to talk telecom, tech, and the administrative state. No one unpacks tech policy in the Trump era better than @DynamistPod.