Justice Antonin Scalia, whom some count as a certain vote against the law, upheld in 2005 Congress's power to punish those growing marijuana for their own medical use; a ban on homegrown marijuana, he reasoned, might be deemed "necessary and proper" to effectively enforce broader federal regulation of nationwide drug markets.
Perhaps the most concerning trend comes from the increasingly authoritarian Russia, which recently began enforcing a broad new censorship law aimed blocking objectionable content, such as child porn and information promoting suicide.
It included strong provisions enforcing a broad secularization of the Catholic country, which many moderate committed Catholics opposed.
A federal court late Sunday night barred the Obama administration from enforcing a broad set of guidelines instructing states and localities on how to accommodate transgender students attending public schools ― including their need to use restrooms that align with their gender identity.
New Jersey may continue to enforce its broad ban on semiautomatic weapons after the United States Supreme Court turned down a challenge from gun owners and manufacturers on Monday.
That kind of displacement, said Mr. Jacobson, the sanctions expert, shows that even strict sanctions, enforced with broad international support, would be unlikely to entirely seal off a country as large and complex as Iran.
The first administration official said that American officials hope that an agreement for a joint campaign against proliferation will "tee up discussions at a very senior level," leading the Russian government to impose and enforce a broad ban on transfers of technologies related to weapons of mass destruction.
The FEC enforces a "broad prohibition on foreign national activity in connection with elections in the United States".
Nor does it preclude a subsequent bill of rights that is more strongly enforced and broader in scope if there is popular support for it, as I have previously argued in this series.
"Meanwhile, we will continue to vigorously enforce the broader sanctions regime, and if Iran fails to meet its commitments we will move to increase our sanctions," he said.
