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• But the real question for the county attorney is whether the law calls for the imposition of the death penalty because my job is to enforce the law — not decide what the law should be.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
• And the Supreme Court has allowed New York to enforce the law for now.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• His job was to open this border and to not enforce the law.
  — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The goal was to give the IRS the resources to enforce the law against those most prone to cheat on their taxes — the rich.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The state could also sue to enforce the law and collect the penalties.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
• The court will decide whether to allow the state to enforce the law while the case proceeds in Burke’s court.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 26 Dec. 2022
• In some cases, even the National Guard has been called out to enforce the law.
  — William E. Trachman, National Review, 4 Feb. 2024
• The voters, too, will judge Biden’s fidelity to his oath to enforce the law before the year is out.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• My job is to carry it out, working with our partners, to enforce the law.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 May 2022
• To enforce the law, police would have had to arrest whole suburbs.
  — Chris Fleming, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023
• At an event in Quincy on Jan. 12, Pritzker told the crowd that law enforcement needs to enforce the law or leave the field.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 16 Jan. 2023
• The Supreme Court denial leaves in place, at least for now, an appeals court ruling that said Texas can enforce the law.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 1 May 2024
• On the first reading of the ordinance the mayor promised to increase the number of employees to enforce the law.
  — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• If nothing changes and the law stands, the Treasury Department will start making rules to define and enforce the law by the start date.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2021
• One resident, Kirk Canaday, pushed the council to enforce the law.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2022
• The federal government should be urged to enforce the law.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
• And once the police got involved, police officers, their job is to enforce the law.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
• The law-abiding majority now faces the consequences of the state’s long failure to enforce the law.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 4 July 2023
• But here’s the crux; under the act the president gets a lot of say over what is turned over, and there is pretty much nothing the Archives can do to enforce the law.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• The rangers blame the state government that owns the forest for failing to enforce the law barring cocoa farming.
  — Taiwo Adebayo, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
• Other educators wonder how the state will enforce the law, since it wasn’t explained in the bill.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 12 May 2022
• Councilman Paul Hinterlong, who cast the lone no vote on the ban, questioned how the city would enforce the law and who will pay the bill if there are lawsuits.
  — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
• School districts that do not enforce the law could lose up to 5 percent of their state funding, and the law would be effective as soon as Stitt signs it.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
• The guards have little power to enforce the law or the M.T.A.’s rules, which has prompted questions about whether the cost of hiring them was justified.
  — Ana Ley, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• But states don’t always enforce the law, advocates say.
  — Claire Rush, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2023
• Still, other law enforcement units can enforce the law.
  — Leily Nikounazar, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• From that moment on, the inspectors will have the power to enforce the law, but the city only has seven code inspectors.
  — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• And Milan is trying to update police contracts so that more officers can work nights and enforce the law.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
• The bill does not specify who would enforce the law on school systems or what should happen in cases where books have already been removed.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
• There are no licenses to suspend or registrations to revoke — documents a cop needs to enforce the law.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024