{"id":177170,"date":"2026-01-12T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/justice-department-launches-task-force-to-attack-state-regulation-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:45:26","slug":"justice-department-launches-task-force-to-attack-state-regulation-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/justice-department-launches-task-force-to-attack-state-regulation-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department launches \u2018task force\u2019 to attack state regulation of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/justice-department-ai-task-force-state-regulation\">Justice Department launches \u2018task force\u2019 to attack state regulation of AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/justice-department-ai-task-force-state-regulation\">https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/justice-department-ai-task-force-state-regulation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 16:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ms.now\">www.ms.now<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald Trump\u2019s Department of Justice recently formed a \u201ctask force\u201d to oppose states trying to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) companies, despite minimal voter demand for it.<\/li>\n<li>This move comes after Trump\u2019s executive order to ban state regulation of AI failed to pass through Congress.<\/li>\n<li>The task force, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi or another appointee, includes members from various Justice Department offices and will consult Trump\u2019s advisor on crypto and AI, David Sacks.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue that the enforcement lacks legal standing, and responses from state officials like Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser indicate potential legal challenges to federal efforts to undermine state AI laws.<\/li>\n<li>Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser vowed to defend state laws and challenge any federal efforts to harm implementation in court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Department launches \u2018task force\u2019 to attack state regulation of AI https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/justice-department-ai-task-force-state-regulation Publish Date: 2026-01-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/260112-david-sacks-zz.jpg?w=1200&h=630&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-177170","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\/177170"}],"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=177170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177172,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177170\/revisions\/177172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}