The Department enforces the general university and school policies on academic honesty, as described in the Bulletins of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, of Columbia College, and of the School of General Studies; in the Honor Code booklet of Barnard College; and in other related publications.
MS. NORTON -- Mr. Chairman, I have served eight years in the capacity of the state attorney general, enforcing the laws of Colorado and of the United States.
"I understand that being attorney general means enforcing the law as they are written, not enforcing my personal preferences," he told the committee.
"I understand that being attorney general means enforcing the laws as they are written, not enforcing my personal preferences," he said in his testimony.
Yet in his confirmation hearings, he said, "I understand that being attorney general means enforcing the laws as they are written, not enforcing my personal preferences".
Plaintiff railroad stockholders brought a federal action to enjoin Young, the state attorney general, from enforcing the law, alleging that it was unconstitutional and that they would suffer irreparable harm if he were not prevented from acting.
That lesson is a simple one: When it comes to enforcing the law, as the attorney general does; when it comes to sitting on the highest court of this land, moderation is indeed a virtue.
"What this appears to be is consistent with the view of three commissioners that they don't want to see the law enforced as they put the emphasis on protecting the players out there as opposed to enforcing the law," said Larry Noble, former general counsel to the FEC and current chairman of Americans for Campaign Reform.
The former may lead to a change in the legislative expression of the general will; possibly to a change in the opinion of the judiciary; the latter enforces the general will, whilst that will and that opinion continue unchanged.
