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BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 03:13 PM Aug 15

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/



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Trump administration to review state laws that harm economy, Justice Department says (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 15 OP
We don't need no stinkin' states' rights! Ocelot II Aug 15 #1
More irony lost on stupid magats. mdbl Aug 16 #18
or... What else can we privatize Nittersing Aug 15 #2
That's vague. TommyT139 Aug 15 #3
They sure were fast to dump states' rights. sinkingfeeling Aug 15 #4
The beginning of the end but when someone suggests Eliot Rosewater Aug 15 #5
But the best economies are blue states, so he's gonna fuck those up, too? -nt CrispyQ Aug 15 #6
Of course orangecrush Aug 16 #19
re issues such as lack of health care, lack of mental health assistance, predatory lending practices, homelessness, wiggs Aug 15 #7
Yup orangecrush Aug 16 #20
" that harm economy"... short term gain for long term loss. Norrrm Aug 15 #8
Notice they aren't even remotely pushing themselves as the party of "states' rights" anymore and haven't since January. Karasu Aug 15 #9
It's the position of many MAGAs that state laws affect birthrate affects economy Prairie Gates Aug 15 #10
I'm betting its environmental laws Bayard Aug 15 #11
The Most Stringent Environmental Regs.... ProfessorGAC Aug 15 #13
Yes, Bayard Aug 16 #17
His definition of what harms the economy is different than everyone else's. ificandream Aug 15 #12
Next time some RWger says something about Small Government, .... aggiesal Aug 15 #14
Mad king pedofelon the 1st doesn't care about any law. Justice matters. Aug 15 #15
"laws...that "significantly and adversely affect the national economy or interstate economic activity..." LudwigPastorius Aug 15 #16
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved ... eppur_se_muova Aug 16 #21

TommyT139

(1,894 posts)
3. That's vague.
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 03:19 PM
Aug 15

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.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,073 posts)
5. The beginning of the end but when someone suggests
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 03:30 PM
Aug 15

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 don’t include violence but when that is suggested some people try to take the opportunity to score points by mocking such suggestions.

I don’t want to see what they have to say and I will never respond to them. 😡

wiggs

(8,415 posts)
7. re issues such as lack of health care, lack of mental health assistance, predatory lending practices, homelessness,
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 04:08 PM
Aug 15

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?

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
9. Notice they aren't even remotely pushing themselves as the party of "states' rights" anymore and haven't since January.
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 04:17 PM
Aug 15

Last edited Sat Aug 16, 2025, 12:18 AM - Edit history (1)

This is unapologetic, textbook, full-throated fascism.

Prairie Gates

(6,274 posts)
10. It's the position of many MAGAs that state laws affect birthrate affects economy
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 05:06 PM
Aug 15

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)
11. I'm betting its environmental laws
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 07:24 PM
Aug 15

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)
13. The Most Stringent Environmental Regs....
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 08:34 PM
Aug 15

...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.

aggiesal

(10,317 posts)
14. Next time some RWger says something about Small Government, ....
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 09:36 PM
Aug 15

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)
15. Mad king pedofelon the 1st doesn't care about any law.
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 09:48 PM
Aug 15

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)
16. "laws...that "significantly and adversely affect the national economy or interstate economic activity..."
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 10:23 PM
Aug 15

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)
21. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved ...
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 10:04 AM
Aug 16
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

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)
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