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Erin Maye Quade

person · Minnesota state senatorCredibility: 65%

Why this score? Minnesota state senator and the author of the state's nudification statute; authoritative and primary on what her own bill does and why it was written, but an interested party defending her own law against a live constitutional challenge, so her assertions about its First Amendment validity are advocacy rather than findings.

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The Minnesota nudification statute is consistent with the First Amendment; its author says the challenge is a defence of profits rather than of speech: "It's sad that the creators of nudification technology would rather protect their ill-gotten profits than protect us from image-based sexual abuse."?

— Erin Maye Quade · Jul 28, 2026
Context: Still unadjudicated. The statute has been in force since 1 August and survived xAI's injunction motion on 4 September, but on delay and the balance of harms — the court expressly did not decide whether it is constitutional, leaving that to the pending motion to dismiss (order, Doc. 54).