Trump signs executive order to block state AI regulations
December 11, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at blocking states from crafting their own regulations for artificial intelligence, saying the burgeoning industry is at risk of being stifled by a patchwork of onerous rules while in a battle with Chinese competitors for supremacy.
Members of Congress from both parties, as well as civil liberties and consumer rights groups, have pushed for more regulations on AI, saying there is not enough oversight for the powerful technology.
The executive order directs the Attorney General to create a new task force to challenge state laws, and directs the Commerce Department to draw up a list of problematic regulations.
Only Congress has the authority to override state laws.
If the current administration is trying to show the world how a constitutional republic with democratic ideals, functions - they are doing a lousy job.
Masked federal agents in the heartland, collecting and keeping the biometric data of citizens without consent, a real-time nationwide surveillance infrastructure on our highways and byways - all of these things are in direct opposition to the individual liberties outlined in our founding documents.
Now the executive branch directly usurps and nullifies state authority, as defined in the constitution.
This is not a good path.
I hope Trump has actual AI scientists advising his administration.
I wouldn’t trust many politicians of any stripe to understand either the potential or the dangers of developing AI.
There'll be some states that will just CLAMOR for these things!
Besides...The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791.[1] It expresses the principle of federalism, whereby the federal government and the individual states share power, by mutual agreement. The Tenth Amendment prescribes that the federal government has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution, and that all other powers not forbidden to the states by the Constitution are reserved to each state, or to the people.
If the FEDS want these so badly, then there is already PLENTY of ‘federal’ land on which to plant them!