Still others are now troubled by the amendments to the Indiana and Arkansas bills and question whether they diminish a necessary statute that protects religious liberty or, alternatively, whether they fail to go far enough to stop discrimination.
"Members view this as a bureaucratic decision that is maybe necessary, based on statutes, but highly short-sighted".
The order established a committee to advise state agencies on the development of necessary rules or statutes relating to self-driving cars.
But the charter plan, initially so promising, was gradually undermined by the realisation among pro-Leveson campaigners, the Labour party and the Lib-Dems, that it lacked the necessary rigour of statute.
"On a few occasions," Mr. Rakoff wrote, "the number of attorneys staffed on a task – while perhaps perfectly appropriate on the assumption that Goldman Sachs wished to spare no expense on a matter of great importance to it – exceeded what was reasonably necessary" under the statute.
This effectively prevented him from returning to Oxford to complete the nine terms' residence that, under the University's statutes, were necessary before his degree could be awarded, so he left without one.
"The bottom line is that, while the aggressive enforcement of federal criminal statutes remains necessary, we cannot simply prosecute or incarcerate our way to becoming a safer nation," Holder said.
"I'm not convinced at this stage that statute is necessary to achieve Lord Justice Leveson's objectives," Cameron said.
Media companies including Sony and Time Warner had argued that the statute was necessary to protect their digital material, like computer games and movies, from widespread unauthorized use.
The military says, 'No, the things we're doing are not intelligence actions under the statute but necessary military steps authorized by the President, as Commander-in-Chief, to "prepare the battlefield".
