vitiate

Hyperpartisanship has vitiated Madison’s expectation that legislators would recognize the importance of preserving their institution’s independence.

He accused the judges of “needlessly upending critical immigration policies that are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry, vitiating core Executive Branch prerogatives, and undoing democratically approved policies that featured heavily in the November election.”

Then, feigning originalism in Dobbs, they vitiated Equal Protection, elevating the legal rights of zygotes over those of living, breathing women, citing 12th-century mores when men like Alito burned women like me at the stake.

And, especially relevant to Edelman in this case: Is it vitiated by bad motives?

The seizure supposedly vitiated his argument for ownership, which was: If the cash is not my money, whose is it?