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Since taking office, he’s grappled with many of the same problems that bedeviled prior sheriffs: poor jail conditions, sprawling consent decrees, allegations about deputy gangs and persistent staffing woes.

Most of those sanctions were set, as Koh also points out, “by executive orders and regulatory decrees,” rather than in consultation with Congress.

Translated as “Nothing new without the common consent,” the new law redistributed political power by forbidding the king from issuing decrees without first getting parliamentary approval.

In a fact sheet titled “5 Things Every Woman Should Know About Social Security,” the agency notes that some women have signed divorce decrees giving up their rights to divorced spousal benefits, but says such clauses “are worthless and never enforced.”

For women who have already had their freedoms crushed bit by bit by a relentless series of decrees, it delivers another blow.