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Nevertheless, advocates focused on reforming the state’s utilities sought this year to seize the moment to enact tough regulations, including forcing data centers to pay for transmission upgrades and wildfire mitigation efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

While Judge Biedscheid's order only demands Meta make changes in New Mexico, should the 30 states prevail in their separate lawsuit against Meta, it would almost certainly need to enact platform changes across the US.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Chait points to the Senate’s creation—a compromise between bigger and smaller states to enact the Constitution.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

Trade lawyers say the new tariffs are likely to withstand legal scrutiny, as Section 301 gives broad authority to the president to enact tariffs after an investigation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

But if Nixon had any more plans in store for Ellsberg, he never got the chance to enact them.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

The greater risk is that Washington, preparing for the wrong labor-market shock, enacts policies that make it more difficult to adapt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

The true danger lies not only in what the state enacts, but in what the public comes to accept as normal, even necessary.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

Simply put, the tax code touches on every aspect of American life, and we need a well-run IRS to ensure that the policies Congress enacts and entrusts to the IRS are properly administered.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2025

UC will adjust its plan depending on what the state ultimately enacts in June.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

In a separate act, the Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, which outlaws slavery in the territories north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

But there is often turbulence when a ban is enacted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

In the 19th century, as the result of lobbying by authors such as Charles Dickens, the British Parliament enacted the Copyright Act of 1842.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

They do not require congressional approval and could be enacted by her government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The proposal would rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, enacted in the final days of the Clinton administration, which barred development across vast areas of public forests and grasslands designated as "inventoried roadless areas."

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Thirty-six states enacted laws that gave victims specific rights to participate in the trial process or to make victim impact statements.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

District Court Judge Indira Talwani, a federal judge in Massachusetts, who will decide in the coming days whether to issue a permanent ban on enacting the system for this election.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

What we have seen in Minneapolis is ordinary people insisting on their own vision of what we are and what we do as a country, then enacting that vision.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Shortly after, the state parliament pushed back, enacting a law that allowed such shops to operate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Strong majorities of Californians believe democracy is under attack and support enacting a new state Voting Rights Act to prohibit discrimination and efforts to suppress voting, a poll showed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Well, I guess Dad finally decided to stop “giving me some space” and start enacting a plan of action, shall we say.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller