legal rights
Example Sentences
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Undocumented residents don’t enjoy the same legal rights as citizens, and deporting someone is a much lower lift, legally speaking, than prosecuting someone for a crime they didn’t commit.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Families and campaigners have raised concerns that this could "strip away" legal rights to support, but the government says this is not the case.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
"The lack of justice has sparked this wave of protests," Abu Ahmed Faijul Kabir of the legal rights group Ain o Salish Kendra told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
County LGBTQ+ Commission and teaches a college course on legal rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Even as a free man in Virginia, Isaac lived under written laws that restricted the legal rights of free blacks and the code of unwritten rules that applied to black people.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
