When xAI filed its federal lawsuit in Denver on April 10, targeting Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser, it was a company asserting its interests. When the DOJ intervened on April 24, it became something categorically different: an official federal legal posture that state-level AI bias requirements are unconstitutional. The DOJ's filing characterizes the Colorado law as distorting the market for AI tools and violating the Equal Protection Clause — which means the administration is now arguing that a clause designed to protect minorities from state discrimination actually protects AI developers…