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   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   OK, then.   
      
   On Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:42:00 +0000,  Lee says...   
      
   > Trump says he'll sign an executive order   
   > restricting states' ability to regulate AI   
   > Dec 8   
      
   Has any President ever signed into law, a national law, something that would   
   prohibit states from passing their own laws on the subject?   
      
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   The Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965, signed into law by   
   President Lyndon B. Johnson, prohibited states from regulating cigarette   
   labeling and advertising.   
      
   The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), signed into law   
   by President Gerald Ford, preempted state laws that relate to employee benefit   
   plans.   
      
   The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore   
   Roosevelt, prohibited states from regulating meat inspection.   
      
   The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, signed into law by President Jimmy   
   Carter, completely preempted state laws regulating airline routes, rates, and   
   services.   
      
   The Federal Communications Act of 1934, signed into law by President Franklin   
   D. Roosevelt, which gave the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broad   
   authority to regulate interstate and foreign communications, effectively   
   preempting state laws.   
      
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   So... when Bill Clinton did this... it was OK?   
      
   One law for all 50 states.   
      
   One notable instance is the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) of 1996. President   
   Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law on September 21,1996.   
      
   The law defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman and prohibited   
   federal recognition of same-sex marriages.   
      
   Section 3 of DOMA, also known as the "federal definition of marriage," stated   
   that for federal purposes, marriage would be defined as a legal union between   
   one man and one woman.   
      
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   Another notable instance is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act   
   (ACA), also known as Obamacare, which President Barack Obama signed into law   
   on March 23,2010.   
      
   The ACA included a provision, known as the 'minimum coverage provision" or the   
   "individual mandate," which required individuals to purchase health insurance   
   or face a penalty.   
      
   The ACA ALSO INCLUDED A PROVISION THAT PROHIBITED STATES FROM PASSING THEIR   
   OWN LAWS that would exempt residents from the individual mandate.   
      
   Another example is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection   
   Act of 2010   
      
   The Dodd-Frank Act preempted state laws regarding some consumer financial   
   products.   
      
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   One notable instance is the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was   
   signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15,2021.   
      
   The law includes a provision that preempts state laws regulating the use of   
   certain types of infrastructure, such as electric vehicle charging stations.   
      
   However, more broadly, the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 allows states to   
   regulate insurance but also allows Congress to preempt state laws.   
      
   Regarding complete preemption of state laws, one example is:   
      
   The Federal Law on Safe Harbor for Federal Student Loan Discharges   
      
   However, a more straightforward example would be:   
      
   The Federal Preemption under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976   
      
   TSCA preempts state laws on chemical safety.   
      
   Another example:   
      
   The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938   
      
   FLSA sets minimum wage and overtime requirements and preempts state laws.   
      
   These laws effectively limit or prohibit states from passing their own laws on   
   certain subjects.   
      
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   "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition   
      
   All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.   
      
   "Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has   
   been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the   
   point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."   
      
   Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the   
   Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or   
   stages:   
      
   "In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The   
   president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were   
   all it took to change the world."   
      
   "The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's   
   vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of   
   hyperbole."   
      
   "As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from   
   reality."   
      
   The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk   
   opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump   
   announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would   
   suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS.   
   There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be   
   received positively by TDSers.   
      
   The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early   
   2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-   
   night comics and nothing more.   
      
   Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first   
   coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003.   
   The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in   
   otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay -   
   the very existence of George W. Bush."   
      
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