Honest question for Corner lawyers: If the Obama administration can decide, on its own, not to enforce ACA deadlines, and if the attorney general can decide, on his own, not to enforce mandatory minimums, why can’t the city of Albuquerque decide, as it apparently has, not to enforce an increase in the minimum wage passed via voter referendum? The city told those complaining of not being paid the higher minimum wage that they should hire lawyers and sue their employers for back wages, but said that the city itself would not litigate on their behalf.

Perhaps we should just give up that old-fashioned business of writing laws down and pretending that they mean something. Ad-hocracy, all day, every day.