A December 11, 2025, White House executive order titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”  signals a clear federal strategy: push back on the fast-growing patchwork of state AI laws, and build a path toward federal preemption. The order does four things that matter for employers who use AI tools in hiring, scheduling, performance management, and other HR decisions. First, it directs the Attorney General to create an AI Litigation Task Force w

On December 11, 2025, the White House issued an executive order titled “ Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence. ” Its stated goal is to preserve U.S. “global AI dominance” through a “minimally burdensome” national framework, and to push back on what it calls “onerous and excessive” state AI laws. If you operate in Florida, it is tempting to read this as “state AI regulation is over.” That is not what this order does. Practically, it sets up a federa

A new lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. challenges what the plaintiff calls the EEOC’s “Disparate Impact Rule”—an internal directive alleged to order the administrative closure of all pending charges based solely on disparate-impact discrimination and to halt conciliation of such claims. The complaint asserts that the EEOC adopted this rule in September 2025 following President Trump’s Executive Order 14281, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy  (Apr. 28, 2025)

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