Selective enforcement of the law
Opting out of No Child Left Behind. A trend of this administration.
If the laws are bad, they shouldn’t be laws and should be gotten rid of through the legislative process. Selective enforcement of the law is tyrannical.
September 26th, 2011 at 10:06 am
Perhaps his Golfing Buddy in the House should remind him that the word “Waiver”doesn’t exist in the Constitution, and his “Pronouncement” has all the Legal Authority of a 3 year-old’s Temper Tantrum. Oh, that’s right. The Constitution doesn’t apply to the Gooberment. Silly me.
September 26th, 2011 at 11:45 am
Selective enforcement of the law is Chicagoan and allows for localized revenue enhancements to occur as benefits the local Government employee in order to foster “Community Development”…
September 26th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Opt-out rulings are easy and shows that the bad law isn’t so bad that it needs to be repealed. Repealing the bad law is hard because it will make people think “If that law can be repealed, what else can be repealed?” and then the dismantling of whole swaths of federal law begins.
Also, it would really hurt the feelings of the late Ted Kennedy and former President Bush. You don’t get deep into politics to hurt other politicians’ feelings. They’re your friends, after all!
September 26th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
It’s not about education. It’s not about student achievement. It’s not about teaching standards.
It’s about control.
The “opt out” is only available at the whim of administration bureaucrats, and then only if the school system adopts “standards” agreeable to said bureaucrats. In other words, “opting out” means MORE federal micromanagement of local education, not less.
It’s about control, as it always is with these people.
September 26th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Well… I agree that bad laws should be repealed or otherwise dispensed with, and the legislature is responsible for such.
But selective enforcement? While it can certainly be abused I am more with “prosecutorial discretion” and (the very-unpopular with lawyers) “jury nullification.” A recent example is a man who was arrested for homicide when an armed robber lost control of a weapon then used by the homeowner, and subsequently died of wounds: that was treated by some press as an abuse of police powers, but it was a formality required by the law. It becomes abuse of the system if the Prosecution Office should decide to go to court with it as a murder with no more indication of such than that someone died.
September 27th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Animal Farm.