The structural consequence of the Colorado stay is not the pause itself but who requested it. A federal court does not overrule a state's enforcement posture — the Colorado attorney general withdrew that posture voluntarily, joining xAI's request to hold the law in suspension. Every state that has watched SB 24-205 as a potential model now sees that the enforcement mechanism is the weakest link: a well-resourced legal challenge does not need to win in court to win in effect. The parallel introduction of replacement legislation that narrows the original…