Obama swears that he'll implement a mandate if one proves necessary, and while that seems like a politically troublesome approach, it's evidence of how deeply the Democrats have converged on a similar set of principles.
I will start reducing emissions immediately in my administration by establishing strong annual reduction targets, and I'll also implement a mandate of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
The Women's Division of the D.N.C. implemented a rule mandating an equal number of male and female delegates, in 1920.
As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney implemented an individual-mandate system; as President, Obama based his proposal, more or less, on Romney's.
The SEC also implemented a rule that mandated electronic filing and Web site posting for stock transactions by officers, directors or 10% holders, by 10 p.m. on the day of an action.
The city implemented a policy that mandated that all rape kits booked into evidence be tested.
Those findings were incorporated into a rule implementing a congressional mandate for biofuel use nationwide that will allow at least an extra 2 billion gallons of corn ethanol to be produced and perhaps much, much more.
The federal government also has dragged its feet implementing a biofuels mandate that would have provided a boost to the green industry partly over fears that increased biofuels production could actually worsen global warming.
It should be noted that none of the schools cited in the Times article have actually implemented a policy that would mandate trigger warnings, and that college classrooms have often served as testing grounds for vital policies that might at first have seemed apocalyptic or Pollyannaish.
The officer, Craig Matthews, a 16-year veteran of the Police Department, claimed in his lawsuit that his superiors retaliated after he complained that supervisors in the 42nd Precinct in the Bronx had "developed and implemented a system of quotas mandating numbers of arrests, summonses, and stop-and-frisks".
