DOJ's Complaint in Intervention Against Colorado's AI Act Rests on Equal Protection Alone and Is Certified by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

The complaint is dated on its signature block, which is a filing date; I read the full DOJ-hosted copy. The prayer for relief asks the court to declare the Colorado statute invalid under the Equal Protection Clause and to enjoin enforcement. The certificate under the Civil Rights Act is signed by Todd Blanche as Acting Attorney General.

Civil Division and Civil Rights Division attorneys signed the pleading.

For the corpus: the sibling entry 2026-04-24–doj-intervenes-xai-colorado-ai-act-first-eo-14365-deployment records that the complaint was not read. It has now been read. Whether the task force directed the filing is not shown by this document, and the task-force memo (2026-01-09–ag-memo-establishes-ai-litigation-task-force-eo-14365-sec-3) lists commerce and preemption grounds that the pleading does not use.

Office versus name: the certifying official on this date was an Acting Attorney General, so the January memo’s author and this certificate’s signer should not be assumed to be the same person.