Ten days ago, the Bush administration handed energy companies a crucial victory, proposing to relax an important enforcement statute of the Clean Air Act.
"If each official were empowered to decide whether or not to carry out each ministerial act based upon the official's own personal judgment of the constitutionality of an underlying statute, the enforcement of statutes would become haphazard, leading to confusion and chaos".
With giant earth-moving equipment and a huge American flag as backdrops, Romney also made his first public comments on Monday's Supreme Court decision on Arizona's tough immigration-enforcement statute, which he strongly supported during the GOP presidential primaries.
"The Justice Department has a unique responsibility to enforce the law enforcement misconduct statute, and our elected officials should stop the Department from shirking its obligations.
Though the amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the United States, factors such as Black Codes, white supremacist violence, and selective enforcement of statutes continued to subject some black Americans to involuntary labor, particularly in the South.
As the Court of Appeals observed with regard to these provisions, 'The statute is concerned with New York practices and, if the sales in other States have no relevancy to New York enforcement, the statute permits the Liquor Authority for good cause to waive the general prohibition against sales to wholesalers in the absence of such schedules.
"He has basically said that the federal government doesn't have any business in running local police departments, and by that I assume he means suing them under Section 14141," Yeomans said, referring to the Law Enforcement Misconduct Statute.
Continued, aggressive enforcement of antidiscrimination statutes as well as affirmative action policies are required to ensure equal opportunity.
So down one road: More arbitration, better enforcement of federal statutes.
