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Recent Examples of jurisprudenceAfter less than five years in power, the Court’s new majority has rendered the country’s religion jurisprudence unrecognizable, even to a lawyer who would have been considered an expert in the Constitution’s approach to religion less than a decade ago.—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 30 Apr. 2025 To abandon it now would reverse over 150 years of constitutional jurisprudence.—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025 This is neither balanced jurisprudence nor an arcane legal dispute.—Darrell Issa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025 The jurisprudence was sorely lacking — Oliver Wendell Holmes would been horrified, Louis Brandeis grave rolling.—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jurisprudence
Oyun-Erdene’s supporters say his ouster had three drivers: Firstly, and with a dash of irony, his relentless pursuit of official graft, including a draft law his cabinet just submitted that would compel all public officials to justify their income.
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Charlie Campbell,
Time,
13 June 2025
Newsom said in a court filing on Thursday that troops had moved beyond those allowable duties to actively assist ICE agents in making arrests, in violation of a federal law known as the Posse Comitatus Act, which is designed to prevent the military from being used as a domestic police force.
However, public trust in that body and the wider judiciary is scant following a slew of high-profile graft scandals coupled with a conspicuous lack of prosecutions or accountability.
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Charlie Campbell,
Time,
13 June 2025
Hegseth’s reference to limits on the judiciary’s power over foreign policy harkens to the administration’s legal argument against returning Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran prison.
In a world where greed runs rampant... justice is best served radioactive.
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Michileen Martin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
The justices consolidated two cases for arguments in April, a Justice Department appeal and an appeal by the family of Ari Fuld, an Israeli American fatally stabbed at a shopping mall in the West Bank in 2018.
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