{"id":189263,"date":"2026-02-20T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/states-split-as-trump-threatens-lawsuits-over-ai-laws\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:45:10","slug":"states-split-as-trump-threatens-lawsuits-over-ai-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/states-split-as-trump-threatens-lawsuits-over-ai-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"States Split as Trump Threatens Lawsuits Over AI Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/artificial-intelligence\/states-split-as-trump-threatens-lawsuits-over-ai-laws\">States Split as Trump Threatens Lawsuits Over AI Laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/artificial-intelligence\/states-split-as-trump-threatens-lawsuits-over-ai-laws\">https:\/\/www.governing.com\/artificial-intelligence\/states-split-as-trump-threatens-lawsuits-over-ai-laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 16:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.governing.com\">www.governing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Justice to sue states with AI laws deemed \u201cburdensome\u201d by the administration, which could affect federal funding support.<\/li>\n<li>Some Democratic-led states remain committed to pressing ahead with their AI regulation despite the executive order, including Colorado, California, and Texas. Critics argue that these lawsuits may not be legally sound. <\/li>\n<li>Republican-led states may take more seriously the possibility of legal action and funding cuts. <\/li>\n<li>States like Colorado are attempting to draft new regulations and updates to existing laws which include protections against discrimination and bias in AI systems.<\/li>\n<li>The Trump administration is attempting to influence state policies directly through opposition to specific laws, such as the Utah bill that sought to impose safety requirements on large AI models.<\/li>\n<li>The political alignment within a state appears to heavily influence how its legislative bodies respond to possible federal interventions and funding issues related to AI regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States Split as Trump Threatens Lawsuits Over AI Laws https:\/\/www.governing.com\/artificial-intelligence\/states-split-as-trump-threatens-lawsuits-over-ai-laws Publish Date: 2026-02-20 16:34:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/59089cd\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3000x1458+0+636\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fde%2F75%2F3abbe5b54b3bb455c8799d096c5f%2Fus-news-trump-ai-regulations-da.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189263"}],"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=189263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189265,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189263\/revisions\/189265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}