sweep aside

And he maintains that the Supreme Court’s decision in June to sweep aside a longstanding legal precedent and reduce the regulatory power of federal agencies has given the incoming president the power to reduce regulations by more than half.

But its principal aim had been to sweep aside the country’s top military brass.

The Senate on Wednesday dismissed the impeachment case against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, voting along party lines before his trial got underway to sweep aside two charges accusing him of failing to enforce immigration laws and breaching the public trust.

Whether or not you care about infidelity and hosts’ personal lives, listeners to Huberman’s podcast should not sweep aside the contents of the New York mag story as mere gossip.

Sweep aside the so-called “fog of war” engulfing live reporting on the Israel-Hamas conflict, and the plainest truth we may be able to agree on is our inability to have a constructive conversation about Israel and the Palestinians.