Corporate Transparency Act Lashed by State Attorneys General (1)

Attorneys general from 25 Republican-led states on Thursday urged the US Supreme Court to keep in place a nationwide pause on enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act, arguing that allowing the law to go into effect would harm their local economies.

The state AGs filed an amicus brief a day before Justice Samuel Alito’s deadline for a response to the Biden administration’s Dec. 31 request to lift the stay while litigation over the law’s constitutionality continues.

The law “raises all kinds of federalism red flags” and threatens to allow the federal government to intrude on aspects of commerce that should ...