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Recent Examples of illegality
The Justice Manual violations described above represent only one dimension of the illegality of this Fund.
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Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Federal illegality further cripples operations with banking and tax burdens.
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Peter Su,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
And the blurred line between guanxi and outright illegality bred widespread graft.
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Reagan Yip,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
While lower prices are welcome news for consumers, cannabis businesses have had difficulty making money due to high financing and operating costs, and an inability to take normal business tax deductions due to the drug’s illegality under federal law.
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Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
Speaking out in that way is not illegality.
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ABC News,
18 Jan. 2026
Many of the administration’s actions rely on broad claims of illegality without providing specific violations.
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Spencer Overton,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2026
My uncles and cousins, all city or federal police officers, did not use political party affiliation as a basis for determining legality versus illegality.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
13 Jan. 2026
So do expressions of concern and declarations of illegality by democratic countries.
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Richard Fontaine,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Federal illegality further cripples operations with banking and tax burdens.
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Peter Su,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
And the blurred line between guanxi and outright illegality bred widespread graft.
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Reagan Yip,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
While lower prices are welcome news for consumers, cannabis businesses have had difficulty making money due to high financing and operating costs, and an inability to take normal business tax deductions due to the drug’s illegality under federal law.
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Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
Speaking out in that way is not illegality.
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ABC News,
18 Jan. 2026
Many of the administration’s actions rely on broad claims of illegality without providing specific violations.
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Spencer Overton,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2026
My uncles and cousins, all city or federal police officers, did not use political party affiliation as a basis for determining legality versus illegality.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
13 Jan. 2026
So do expressions of concern and declarations of illegality by democratic countries.
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Richard Fontaine,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for illegality
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In that context, the language of immigrant criminality becomes part of the rationale for detention rules, enforcement surges and legal changes that treat noncitizens as a standing public safety risk.
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Police sources say no criminality is suspected.
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But in a court-martial, a service member who argues that an order is unlawful has the burden of proving its unlawfulness.
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Many people at Harvard and elsewhere feared that the university would reach a deal with the Administration before Judge Burroughs’s decision, because that would have meant that no court would declare the unlawfulness of the Administration’s actions toward academic institutions.
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Damien and Jessica O'Brien are charged with second-degree murder, torture and child abuse, according to authorities.
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Unfortunately, there’s always collateral damage from these abuse cases.
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Americans are accustomed to showing wide deference to senior military leaders, treating them as dutiful public servants rather than possible enablers of presidential lawlessness.
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Ramaphosa accused these groups of exploiting migration anxieties to sow division through lawlessness and violence.
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The council made similar appointments when Patrick Cannon stepped down in 2014 after he was indicted on public corruption charges and in 2013 when Anthony Foxx left the city to become the federal secretary of transportation.
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When self-interest matures into corruption, the machine begins to strain.
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This kind of depravity, licentiousness and polemical theatrics has no place on such a traditional and once wholesome presentation of the coming of a new year in our great nation and especially on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in democracy and freedom in history.
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This kind of depravity, licentiousness and polemical theatrics has no place on such a traditional and once-wholesome presentation of the coming of a new year, especially on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in democracy and freedom in history.
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Independents said the worst thing about Republicans was their loyalty to Trump (10%), perceptions of corruption and self-enrichment (8%), dishonesty, hypocrisy or immorality (7%), a lack of concern for ordinary people or cruelty (6%), and ineffective and weak or unqualified leadership (5%).
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Following this tendency might finally cure us not only of indigestion but also the ancient immorality of eating other organisms.
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“Illegality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illegality. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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