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Pressed on civil liberties concerns - including cases where people without criminal records have been detained - Hilton argued such situations would be avoided through better co-ordination between state and federal authorities.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
“They served time in federal prison,” reads the suit.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
Yet the reliance on federal funding discourages regular Catholics from giving and doing as much as they might—after all, government is already on the job.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
This particular case involves a federal statute called the Investment Company Act that provides that each share gets equal voting power in closed-end funds.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
Anyone apprehensive about the encroaching powers of the federal government must have felt a palpable sense of reassurance that the seat of power was virtually invisible.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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