Phil Weiser (D) is attorney general of Colorado. Previously, he was a professor of law and dean of the University of Colorado Law School, where he founded the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Weiser held senior leadership positions in the Obama administration, serving as a deputy assistant attorney general in the US Justice Department and as senior advisor for technology and innovation at the White House’s National Economic Council. Prior to that, he co-chaired the Colorado Innovation Council and served in President Clinton’s Department of Justice. He also has held two clerkships at the US Supreme Court, for Justices Byron White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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With Congress mired in partisan gridlock and presidents of both parties relying on the growing use of federal executive power, states are playing an increasingly important rol...