Rep. Alexander Kolodin

More lawyers misusing AI (Westlaw's CoCounsel): 6th Cir. opinion today focuses on criminal defense attorney who "used artificial intelligence to draft the briefs in this case and then filed them without properly verifying the cited legal authorities." "The first tell" that AI use was in play was the file name of the principal brief: "CoCounsel Skill Results." "CoCounsel is the name of Westlaw’s internal artificial-intelligence platform." "Further suspicions arose" when the briefs included three fake quotations and several misrepresented case holdings. Lawyer admitted he directed a staff member to upload district court docs to CoCounsel to create a first draft of the brief. He said this was his first time using Westlaw CoCounsel. Court notes that the fact that the cases are real, and only the quotes were fake, "does not absolve him." "The fact remains that Howe committed inexcusable transgressions during the appellate phase of this case. And that misconduct had consequences." Sanctions: -Lawyer will not be compensated under Criminal Justice Act for time spent on the appeal. -Referred to Chief Judge of 6th Cir. to consider disciplinary proceedings. -Opinion to be served on E.D. Ky. chief judge and clerk and Disciplinary Clerk for Kentucky Bar Association. -Lawyer removed from further representation in the case.

States run elections to protect our democracy from a single point of failure. As long as I am Secretary of State, I will do everything in my power to protect your personal identifying information.

House Democrats are in the final stretch of committees and Republicans are still REFUSING to act on our affordability agenda. Instead, thin-skinned committee chairs like John Gillette are throwing tantrums and abusing the process. We won’t stay silent and we won’t stop fighting.

Voters should always come first. In this case, without any statutory guidance, I acted in favor of the law as I saw it. And while I believe the Party organization has particular technical authority to act, the Court ruled with the voters as a whole. Both approaches, being reasonable, the Court entered an order with a lean towards the voters, not the party leaders. Considering the fast approach of the election and the challenging job election administrators have before them, we will not participate in an appeal.

It’s not just about finding fraud with DOGE, it’s about getting taxpayer $$ back and going after bad actors. Arizona will do that when I’m Governor.

November can’t come soon enough!