It's lamentably common to pass laws that force the enforcement of previous more general laws, so please don't take the passing of a law as an admission or attes

It's lamentably common to pass laws that force the enforcement of previous more general laws, so please don't take the passing of a law as an admission or attestation that what the new law forbids was previously legal. In the U.S. this is going to be even more common, since post-Bork judicial idiocy has ex-facto sidelined much previous law; but the law is still there, and could still be enforced. It just isn't being enforced. Since judges can't easily be replaced, passing "repeater" laws that rule out bizarre interpretations of previous law is going to happen.