Trump administration to review state laws that harm economy, Justice Department says
Source: Reuters
August 15, 2025 10:49 AM EDT Updated 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday said it was working to identify laws in U.S. states that "significantly and adversely affect the national economy or interstate economic activity," according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The DOJ will conduct the effort along with the White House's National Economic Council, it said, adding that it was also soliciting public comments for possible solutions.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-review-state-laws-that-harm-economy-justice-department-says-2025-08-15/
Short article at post time.

Ocelot II
(127,193 posts)mdbl
(7,362 posts)Nittersing
(7,615 posts)TommyT139
(1,894 posts)It could mean anything from state laws about controversial drugs like mifepristone, to vehicle exhaust regulations, to gender markers on drivers licenses, to civil rights -- anything.
sinkingfeeling
(56,337 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(34,073 posts)We may have to go to drastic measures, do things that have never done before in opposition, and there are many things you could do that dont include violence but when that is suggested some people try to take the opportunity to score points by mocking such suggestions.
I dont want to see what they have to say and I will never respond to them. 😡
CrispyQ
(40,231 posts)

orangecrush
(26,713 posts)wiggs
(8,415 posts)wealth inequality, under performing schools, illness due to pollution, tax evasion, massive syndicates buying homes only to keep them as rentals forever, price gouging...those kinds of things?
Norrrm
(2,984 posts)Karasu
(2,003 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 16, 2025, 12:18 AM - Edit history (1)
This is unapologetic, textbook, full-throated fascism.
Prairie Gates
(6,274 posts)National abortion ban under the auspices of economic interest. They are even cynical enough to justify it on the basis of needed increased birthrate for Social Security, which of course they will then kill anyway.
Bayard
(26,974 posts)He's already been gutting them, and the EPA, on a national level. Can't stand in the way of pollution.
Don Henley: Goodbye To A River
ProfessorGAC
(74,446 posts)...are in California.
Their state GDP is the 4th largest of any COUNTRY! They are bigger than Japan, with about 22% of the people.
So if they use that argument, it's completely specious.
But trump's middle name is Specious.
ificandream
(11,363 posts)aggiesal
(10,317 posts)I'm going to shove this article in his face
Not that it would work, because they probably couldn't read it.
Or if they could, they wouldn't understand it.
Justice matters.
(8,879 posts)Nor about his duty to consult and obey the laws passed by the Congress of the United States.
So that's just another distraction to bury the criminal cover up of the Epstein files.
LudwigPastorius
(13,399 posts)i.e. business and environmental regulations, abortion and reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrants rights, and voting rights
So glad Republicans are against 'big guvment'.
eppur_se_muova
(40,010 posts)Constitutional Amendments Amendment 10 Powers to the States or to the People
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/constitutional-amendments-amendment-10-powers-states-or-people
So state regulations should trump Federal regulations, if they were adopted before the Federal laws were passed.
More "it's eveybody's fault (but me)" from Turnip.
(Couldn't resist using the RR library for the link)