Privacy board regains quorum in shadow of SCOTUS ruling for Trump on independent agency firings

Commissioners of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board -- which can investigate and report on controversial applications of artificial intelligence by the government -- and supporters celebrated reinstatement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled their dismissal illegal, but a related Supreme Court decision now looms.

“Our purported removals are ‘unlawful,’ ‘null and void,’” Democratic PCLOB commissioner Travis LeBlanc said posting the May 21 decision to his social media. “The court’s decision is a...