A person familiar with their dispute, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Post that Ullyot was enforcing a directive from the White House, where officials were scrambling to contain the fallout from Trump's comments, and they did not want government officials to call further attention to the controversy.
In February's preparatory debate, MEPs urged EU member states to do more to enforce a 2011 EU directive on combating sexual abuse of children, to make investigation and prosecution more effective and to work more closely with internet service providers and with the EU law enforcement agency, Europol, to get illegal images removed.
A decision by the Supreme Court more than two decades ago suggested that Congress is not empowered to enforce a resolution or other directive that, unlike a bill, the president has no chance to veto.
But it is also set to enforce a strict data protection directive that would cut off the flow of commercial data to nations whose privacy protections are deemed inadequate.
It is being introduced in the form of a Statutory Instrument enforcing an EU directive - which means it is unlikely to be even debated in parliament and cannot be amended by our elected representatives.
In a news release, the White House said Yates had "betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States". Yates was replaced by Dana Boente, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who told The Washington Post he would enforce the president's directive until Trump nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala). is confirmed.
The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. Id., at 935.
The EU court technically was enforcing a 1995 EU directive on privacy that treats search engines as data "collectors" subject to regulation.
To enforce this directive, a university might prohibit such practices unless a professor or supervisor grants an exemption due to the exceptional quality of the source.
In the European Union, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) enforces a good ecological and chemical status of all surface waters.
