jurisprudence

as in law
formal the study of law a professor of jurisprudence

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Recent Examples of jurisprudence After less than five years in power, the Court’s new majority has rendered the country’s religion jurisprudence unrecognizable, even to a lawyer who would have been considered an expert in the Constitution’s approach to religion less than a decade ago. Ian Millhiser, Vox, 30 Apr. 2025 To abandon it now would reverse over 150 years of constitutional jurisprudence. Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025 This is neither balanced jurisprudence nor an arcane legal dispute. Darrell Issa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025 The jurisprudence was sorely lacking — Oliver Wendell Holmes would been horrified, Louis Brandeis grave rolling. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jurisprudence
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Noun
  • Newsom said in a court filing on Thursday that troops had moved beyond those allowable duties to actively assist ICE agents in making arrests, in violation of a federal law known as the Posse Comitatus Act, which is designed to prevent the military from being used as a domestic police force.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2025
  • Oyun-Erdene’s supporters say his ouster had three drivers: Firstly, and with a dash of irony, his relentless pursuit of official graft, including a draft law his cabinet just submitted that would compel all public officials to justify their income.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Dissent isn’t tolerated, nor is there an independent judiciary.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • Four years and 226 judges, including three U.S. Supreme Court justices, later, Mr. Trump made the federal judiciary much younger and much more conservative.
    Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by FBI agents last week, charged with obstruction of justice and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
  • Matt Hunsaker, who was 10 years old when his mother was killed, said Friday that his family is overwhelmed with emotion to know that justice will finally be served.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025

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“Jurisprudence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jurisprudence. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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