{"id":175013,"date":"2026-01-06T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/federal-strategy-to-preempt-state-based-ai-laws-ervin-cohen-jessup-llp\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:25:14","slug":"federal-strategy-to-preempt-state-based-ai-laws-ervin-cohen-jessup-llp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/federal-strategy-to-preempt-state-based-ai-laws-ervin-cohen-jessup-llp\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Strategy to Preempt State-Based AI Laws | Ervin Cohen &#038; Jessup LLP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/federal-strategy-to-preempt-state-based-7894276\/\">Federal Strategy to Preempt State-Based AI Laws | Ervin Cohen &#038; Jessup LLP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/federal-strategy-to-preempt-state-based-7894276\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/federal-strategy-to-preempt-state-based-7894276\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-06 13:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The White House issued a draft Executive Order titled \u201cEliminating State Law Obstruction of National AI Policy\u201d to preempt state AI laws in favor of a centralized national framework.<\/li>\n<li>The executive order proposes to create an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state statutes that conflict with federal priorities.<\/li>\n<li>Federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, Commerce Department, FCC, and FTC, are directed to review and potentially withhold funding from states with restrictive AI laws.<\/li>\n<li>The order seeks to respond to state-level AI legislation, notably California\u2019s Transparency in Frontier AI Models Act and Colorado\u2019s Artificial Intelligence Act.<\/li>\n<li>Businesses should be prepared for shifting obligations as federal agencies may override state requirements, necessitating flexible compliance frameworks for those operating nationally.<\/li>\n<li>Companies dependent on AI vendors need to monitor contractual obligations related to disclosures, risk assessments, and transparency requirements, as these may conflict with federal requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the uncertainty of the order\u2019s finalization, companies must start evaluating how federal preemption could impact their compliance, contracts, and overall AI governance practices.<\/li>\n<li>The draft order aligns with congressional initiatives to integrate AI preemption into federal legislation, including the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Strategy to Preempt State-Based AI Laws | Ervin Cohen &#038; Jessup LLP https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/federal-strategy-to-preempt-state-based-7894276\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.15036_5440.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-175013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175015,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175013\/revisions\/175015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}