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Generally, while calls to invoke judicial dissolution don’t result in much action, it’s still fun to fantasize about which corporations should face execution.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

He implores Congress to invoke this clause to make a case for new voting rights legislation that can address the post-Callais landscape.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026

Porter’s death has become a rallying point for Los Angeles activists, who regularly invoke his name at Police Commission meetings and protests.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Mr. Auslin remarks on how opposite sides in a dispute could invoke the same text.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

“I’m sorry for the interruption, but I’d like to invoke the Clause of the Impossible Task.”

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

The very history he so powerfully invokes to explain the 14th Amendment’s origins often becomes, in his jurisprudence, a reason to limit rather than enlarge its reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

The book invokes James Carville and David Brooks as prominent talking heads, which is about 20 years out of date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

The Philippines invokes its geographical proximity to the Spratly Islands as the main basis of its claim for part of the grouping.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Second, the DOJ invokes the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and its requirement that all states must maintain a computerized, statewide voter registration list.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026

America’s patriotic song “America the Beautiful” invokes our spacious skies, our amber waves of grain, from sea to shining sea.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Inspect the footage closely, and questions surface—notably, around an absence of the police invoked in the video’s title.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

At a civil deposition in 2022, he invoked the Fifth more than 440 times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

In the two decades since, Purcell has become one of election law’s most invoked doctrines.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

The DOJ invoked the presumption of regularity and argued his arrest was part of an anti-terrorism dragnet, which the judge threw out.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Why would these young men openly endorse and perpetuate the very stereotypes that are invoked to justify their second-class status, their exclusion from mainstream society?

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

That seems like a decent rationale for invoking the corporate death penalty.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

The Giants might see an opportunity to get out from under the second year of his deal by invoking the “high-risk activities” language from the CBA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

He told the panel he was invoking the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution under the advice of his attorneys.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

“Today I have put aside my plush ball in search of the real,” Gelsomina thinks, amusingly invoking semioticians such as Jean Baudrillard, who explored simulacra and authenticity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

“By invoking the ‘treasure trove’ notion of common law,” said Jake.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein