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First, does either a federal consent decree that Arizona entered into 2018 or a federal law, the National Voter Registration Act, prevent Arizona from rejecting voter registrations when voters don’t produce documentary proof of citizenship?

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Did Gordon Granger, an otherwise obscure Union Army general, really stroll into Galveston and read a decree from Abraham Lincoln declaring, to a sea of onlookers, that all enslaved people were now officially free?

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

That's why, in his decree, Zelensky said he was using the UPA's name "with the aim of restoring the historical traditions of the national army".

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

A decree published on Zelensky’s website ahead of the event stated that Red Square wouldn’t be targeted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

The Court’s enforcement decree, issued a full year after Brown, seemed conciliatory to segregationists, imposing no deadline for achieving racially mixed schools and calling merely for “good faith implementation.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Max Mathiasin, a lawmaker from the former colony turned overseas territory of Guadeloupe who is championing the bill, last week said repealing the decrees would be a "powerful symbolic and political gesture".

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Milei moved quickly once in office, signing dozens of decrees to shrink and deregulate the state in one of the most rapid budget turnarounds in the history of emerging markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Many “return to office” mandates and expectations started as decrees from C-suite executives, after the pandemic broadened the appeal of working from home.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

For instance, councils need to have a library service - but there are no decrees over how many libraries there should be, when they should be open or how much should be spent on them.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

She reestablished Sunday mass, suspended the use of red armbands, and abrogated the harebrained decrees.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“In the odious decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford, this Court imposed the Southern States’ beliefs onto the Nation” and decreed Blacks could not become citizens, Roberts wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

In this case, Musk decreed an opening price of $135 per share and the banks went along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

A decade ago, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman – or MBS as he is widely known – decreed a revisioning of his country that leapt from the realm of science fiction.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

"Any person or entity that challenges the public order decreed by the transitional authorities will be severely reprimanded, in compliance with the law," the statement said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

It is a waste of time and energy But still, the king officially decreed that all rats in the Kingdom of Dor were outlaws and should be treated as such.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo

Multiple lawsuits were filed challenging the rules, leading to a series of lower court decisions upholding some of New York’s new law but decreeing that other aspects were unconstitutional.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

It is roughly analogous to a disgruntled DMV employee refusing to process your driver’s license renewal paperwork, and also unilaterally decreeing that you were never allowed to operate a motor vehicle in the first place.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2023

Any papal document would likely take the form of an Apostolic Constitution decreeing changes in Church law.

From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2022

Women’s advocates, largely supported by religious scholars, have always maintained there’s nothing in the Quran decreeing a covering as restrictive as the burqa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

The facts about Everest were established, and this involved a triple process of finding, making and decreeing.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton