The only thing that will matter is whether New York has sound rules — and a system to enforce them — that have a real chance of cleaning up a dirty state government.
What struck me at the Supreme Court hearing was just how messy and incoherent our current laws are — it was really surreal to watch Donald Verrilli, the solicitor general, explain that yes, these are federal laws, but no, the government doesn't want Arizona's help in enforcing them, because that could cause all kinds of trouble.
The problem was that they weren't enforcing them, not that they needed more".
It is often impossible to resolve intensely controversial constitutional questions concerning racial discrimination, the rights of criminal defendants, the right to bear arms, same-sex marriage, abortion, or campaign finance in a way that is faithful to the law of the land without articulating theoretically robust principles and enforcing them a way that upsets a great many people.
"We the People" and our representatives pass laws and enforce them, but that does not fulfill our ethical responsibility.
The British Medical Association BMAA) has argued that the changes will make doctors work "dangerously long hours" and effectively cut their pay, and warned that enforcing them could prompt an exodus of young doctors from England's NHS.
Historically, the laws against selling alcohol and tobacco to minors have been enforced only sporadically, and it turns out that enforcing them more aggressively for example, by sending undercover youth buyers into stores to attempt purchase without identification can succeed in reducing underage drinking and its attendant harms.
Historically, the laws against selling alcohol and tobacco to minors have been enforced only sporadically, and it turns out that enforcing them more aggressively - for example, by sending undercover youth buyers into stores to attempt purchase without identification - can succeed in reducing underage drinking and its attendant harms.
They also suggest that the mature signaling peptides might have toxic effects on the receiving cells that enforce them to respond.
A truly single market, a genuinely level playing field, requires a single legal framework, identical industry, labour and environmental protection standards, and courts that will enforce them with the same determination throughout the single jurisdiction.
Judging from its brief, Murphy, its lawyer, will likely have much to say about how Congress makes the laws and the executive must enforce them as written, and that any refusal to do so is an abdication of its responsibilities.
