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Selective enforcement has become a topic of great discussion in the illegal immigration debate. The 2011 "Morton Memo" [7] laid out enforcement priorities for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and was intended to channel limited resources into prioritized pursuit of cases involving criminals and felons. It was interpreted as the ...
An executive waiver is an administrative tool used by presidents of the United States, and other of its Federal executives, permitting the selective enforcement of some laws. The right of the president to delay implementation of certain provisions is normally written into a law, to provide flexibility that Congress cannot offer.
Institutions may choose to exercise discretion, thereby enforcing laws, regulations, or norms only in selective circumstances. [22] Some scholars, such as Joseph H. Tieger, have suggested that selective enforcement is an inherent component of all enforcement regimes, because it is impossible for enforcers to observe and catch every violation. [23]
The Military Selective Service Act of 1948 (Act), revised in 1967, authorizes the president to require the registration for possible military service of males, but not females. [2] While the Act was amended in 1973 to prohibit conscription, the purpose of registration is to facilitate conscription under the Act when deemed necessary by the ...
(The Center Square) – Republican senators led by U.S. Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC, introduced a bill that would require illegal foreign nationals who assault law enforcement officers to be deported. The ...
Enhancing laws on trespassing; Removing homeless people from particular areas; Prohibiting begging; Selective enforcement of laws; Selective creation of laws (The French novelist Anatole France noted this phenomenon as long ago as 1894, observing that "the law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges ...
The Selective Service System was first founded in 1917 to feed bodies into America's World War I efforts. It was disbanded in 1920, fired back up in 1940, re-formatted in 1948, and then terminated ...
Based on these changes, the National Coalition for Men, a non-profit men's rights organization, filed a lawsuit against the Selective Service System in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on April 4, 2013, arguing that with the Pentagon's change in female participation in combat roles, the rationale behind ...