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lawfare
/ ˈɔːˌɛə /
noun
- the use of the law by a country against its enemies, esp by challenging the legality of military or foreign policy
Word History and Origins
Origin of lawfare1
Example Sentences
Writing in Lawfare this week, Benjamin Wittes also questioned the legal basis for the reliance on the Salvadoran prison.
“ law lets the Trump administration store Venezuelans in Salvadoran prisons?” asked Wittes, who is editor in chief of the Lawfare site.
Lawfare makes for strange bedfellows.
It also had a vanguard element for conservative lawfare against the reviled Fourth Estate: As Slate’s Seth Stevenson noted in his coverage at the time of the trial at the time, Charles Harder, the lead attorney for the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that led to Gawker’s demise, was there, taking fastidious notes.
“The President is delivering on his promises of eradicating Partisan Lawfare in America, and restoring Liberty and Justice FOR ALL.”
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