Bill Barr to lead conservative legal group challenging business rules

Former Trump White House Attorney General Bill Barr is helping lead a new venture by the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce that will focus on challenging what it considers "overreaching" business regulations.

The venture, the Center for Legal Action, was announced Thursday and is an offshoot of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, a conservative business group.

"Overreaching federal bureaucracies are drowning American businesses under an unprecedented wave of burdensome regulation that is smothering our nation's economic growth, innovation and competitiveness," said Barr, a two-time Republican attorney general, who is serving as the chairman of the group's advisory board.

The American Free Enterprise Chamber is a group that says it represents "hard working entrepreneurs, innovators, and creators" by fighting "against burdensome regulations, job-killing tax policies, and the corporate cronyism and backroom DC deal making that threaten our economic future."

Barr's legal group will "challenge the barrage of federal regulations and mandates that raise energy costs, reduce employment, restrict basic freedoms, and erode the constitutional rights of individuals and businesses," the chamber said.

Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.