inapplicable

"State laws and deadlines concerning 'replacement' of candidates are inapplicable here," he said.

“A lot of what we deal with is just theory in the classroom and it feels really inapplicable and then here we are seeing those same theories and ideas about activism and decolonization actually play out.”

And when President Clinton unsuccessfully argued that a civil lawsuit against him should be delayed until he left office, he didn’t claim that the statute authorizing the lawsuit was inapplicable because it didn’t specifically authorize suing him.

If the principle of presidential immunity is based on the Constitution, he said, it would mean Congress “cannot provide a remedy against presidential misconduct, and the criminal laws of the United States are wholly inapplicable to the president. ... I find this approach completely unacceptable,” adding it “places the president above the law.”

National and state Republican committees argued the date requirement is useful in detecting fraud and that the materiality provision of the Civil Rights Act was inapplicable.