I think this is actually pretty positive, this will always be the de facto law anyway and now they've made it de jure which is if nothing else more honest than

I think this is actually pretty positive, this will always be the de facto law anyway and now they've made it de jure which is if nothing else more honest than the counties that don't. I don't like it one bit to be clear but I can't really expect any system to behave when faced with what they believe is their own destruction. Some group or act that people really believe is a threat to national security and the has a real chance of causing a revolt against the established order will find themselves facing down a government who's loaded their battle short and willing to compromise anything to snuff it out. Making such a thing part of the actual law I think gives assurances to the people when it's invoked that the government hasn't completely broken down and still intends to hold themselves to the law where otherwise people might assume that acting extrajudicially broke the seal.