inapplicability

“The courts’ hesitance to weigh in on these questions heightens the risk that Trump will invoke the Alien Enemies Act despite its clear inapplicability,” she wrote.

But the court’s statement was an invitation for Congress to amend and clarify a particular statute, not a declaration about the inapplicability of all general statutes that fail to mention the president.

Government lawyers have defended the legality of these purchases—and the inapplicability of Carpenter—by arguing that the government is a customer like any other.

And European leaders fear their national courts won’t be able to convict former fighters because of a lack of evidence or the inapplicability of domestic laws.

Their inapplicability deeply embarrasses us whenever we come to recognize that we are not who and what we say we are.