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"Just enforce the existing laws in a reasonable manner" seems to be the solution to a lot of problems these days.
by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
"Just enforce the existing laws in a reasonable manner" seems to be the solution to a lot of problems these days.
- mysterydip 4y ago"We're going to do what we already should be doing" doesn't get re-election votes the same way "I made a new law to address this" does.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> "We're going to do what we already should be doing" doesn't get re-election votes the same way "I made a new law to address this" does In most systems, legislators have smaller constituencies than the executives. No President or Prime Minister will swing meaningful votes by prioritizing enforcement of consent-to-be-photographed laws. But an MP or Congressperson with an off-year primary projected to be within a 1,000-vote margin might find those 50 or 60 extra votes helpful. That said, the ordinary course would be for said legislator to compel the executive to enforce. Not to write more laws. (The latter being easier to do, easier to message and less prone to backfiring.)