The administration's multi-front campaign — DOJ litigation threats, Commerce Department law reviews, and congressional preemption proposals — rests on an assumption that state legislatures will yield to federal signaling. The 2025 record closes that assumption off: 145 enacted AI laws from 1,208 introduced bills is not a regulatory environment that pauses on White House request. The DOJ task force is a credible litigation threat, but litigation takes years; the laws it targets are already operative. The more telling dynamic is that the preemption framework Congress rejected twice has not been…