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Recent Examples of illegality
As a result, the decision was 6–3 on the illegality of the executive order, but only 5–4 on the constitutional question.
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Amy Davidson Sorkin,
New Yorker,
30 June 2026
The Justice Manual violations described above represent only one dimension of the illegality of this Fund.
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Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Federal illegality further cripples operations with banking and tax burdens.
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Peter Su,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
And the blurred line between guanxi and outright illegality bred widespread graft.
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Reagan Yip,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
While lower prices are welcome news for consumers, cannabis businesses have had difficulty making money due to high financing and operating costs, and an inability to take normal business tax deductions due to the drug’s illegality under federal law.
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Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
Speaking out in that way is not illegality.
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ABC News,
18 Jan. 2026
Many of the administration’s actions rely on broad claims of illegality without providing specific violations.
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Spencer Overton,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2026
My uncles and cousins, all city or federal police officers, did not use political party affiliation as a basis for determining legality versus illegality.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
13 Jan. 2026
Amy Davidson Sorkin,
New Yorker,
30 June 2026
The Justice Manual violations described above represent only one dimension of the illegality of this Fund.
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Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Federal illegality further cripples operations with banking and tax burdens.
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Peter Su,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
And the blurred line between guanxi and outright illegality bred widespread graft.
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Reagan Yip,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
While lower prices are welcome news for consumers, cannabis businesses have had difficulty making money due to high financing and operating costs, and an inability to take normal business tax deductions due to the drug’s illegality under federal law.
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Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
Speaking out in that way is not illegality.
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ABC News,
18 Jan. 2026
Many of the administration’s actions rely on broad claims of illegality without providing specific violations.
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Spencer Overton,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2026
My uncles and cousins, all city or federal police officers, did not use political party affiliation as a basis for determining legality versus illegality.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
13 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for illegality
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In that context, the language of immigrant criminality becomes part of the rationale for detention rules, enforcement surges and legal changes that treat noncitizens as a standing public safety risk.
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Police sources say no criminality is suspected.
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But in a court-martial, a service member who argues that an order is unlawful has the burden of proving its unlawfulness.
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Many people at Harvard and elsewhere feared that the university would reach a deal with the Administration before Judge Burroughs’s decision, because that would have meant that no court would declare the unlawfulness of the Administration’s actions toward academic institutions.
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Melvin Shimkus, 52, was arrested on a charge of vulnerable adult abuse after allegedly leaving his 31-year-old son, Hunter Shimkus, in a bathtub for seven weeks, according to local outlets, AZ Family, 12 News and Fox 10 TV, citing court documents.
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There was a sense of hope in 2022 for women like Nakajima, an immigrant who sought safety in a new country and struggled with abuse from her family and strange men.
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Americans are accustomed to showing wide deference to senior military leaders, treating them as dutiful public servants rather than possible enablers of presidential lawlessness.
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Ramaphosa accused these groups of exploiting migration anxieties to sow division through lawlessness and violence.
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The electoral authority based the candidate bans on a law against corrupt practices that in previous years saw some parliamentary seats bought with money linked to drug trafficking, corruption and tax evasion.
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Seems like far too many appreciate this type of corruption, and making money on SM for lies, is precisely that.
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This kind of depravity, licentiousness and polemical theatrics has no place on such a traditional and once wholesome presentation of the coming of a new year in our great nation and especially on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in democracy and freedom in history.
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This kind of depravity, licentiousness and polemical theatrics has no place on such a traditional and once-wholesome presentation of the coming of a new year, especially on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in democracy and freedom in history.
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Independents said the worst thing about Republicans was their loyalty to Trump (10%), perceptions of corruption and self-enrichment (8%), dishonesty, hypocrisy or immorality (7%), a lack of concern for ordinary people or cruelty (6%), and ineffective and weak or unqualified leadership (5%).
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That immorality takes on many forms across all aspects of society.
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“Illegality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illegality. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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