legality
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But letting the popularity of an activity determine its legality is a slippery slope.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Human rights campaigners have condemned the policy, with some questioning its legality.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Supreme Court heard arguments in a case over the legality of that practice this week, but some states aren’t waiting for a ruling.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
Law firms, for exactly the same reasons, are a potentially independent source of power that can be used to effectively challenge the legality and success of the administration’s actions.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2026
A local historian later ventured that the Osage murder trials received more media coverage than the previous year’s Scopes “monkey trial,” in Tennessee, regarding the legality of teaching evolution in a state-funded school.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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leg, legis (law)
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