as in to abolish
to put an end to by formal action
a law that was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as unconstitutional
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Recent Examples of strike down
This explosion has followed a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a law that had prohibited most states from legalizing sports betting.
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
Trump’s Termination of Birthright Citizenship Legal Weakness: Constitutional Conflict: The 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to individuals born in the U.S., making this order almost certain to be struck down.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
The state Supreme Court struck down the 2021 amendment this week.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2025
Loading your audio article The Colorado Supreme Court struck down a national animal rights organization’s ninth attempt to declare animals legal persons in court and secure them the right to challenge their confinement and custody.
—Katie Langford, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
Trump’s Termination of Birthright Citizenship Legal Weakness: Constitutional Conflict: The 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to individuals born in the U.S., making this order almost certain to be struck down.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
The state Supreme Court struck down the 2021 amendment this week.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2025
Loading your audio article The Colorado Supreme Court struck down a national animal rights organization’s ninth attempt to declare animals legal persons in court and secure them the right to challenge their confinement and custody.
—Katie Langford, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strike down
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But Reagan faced a Democratic House of Representatives that objected, and by 1984, the GOP had abandoned its call for abolishing the department.—
Richard Stengel,
TIME,
15 Feb. 2025
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Moreover, the president has intertwined his calls to abolish the $268 billion bureaucracy with attempts to leverage it to advance his own agenda.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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In his first weeks in office, Trump has accelerated this process, issuing unconstitutional executive orders and directives purporting to repeal birthright citizenship and directing OMB to freeze funding for thousands of federal programs in violation of an act of Congress.—
Lawrence Norden,
TIME,
12 Feb. 2025
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Under the Congressional Review Act, each regulation can be repealed one by one with a simple majority vote in each chamber and the signature of the president.—
David Sivak,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
12 Feb. 2025
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As part of a broader immigration crackdown, his administration quickly canceled all appointments people had made through a U.S. government app.—
Julie Watson,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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Thousands of artists have called on Christie’s to cancel an upcoming auction of art made by artificial intelligence.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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No record of post on Trump’s account Trump began his second presidential term with a flurry of executive orders, one of which rolled back DEI programs in all agencies in the executive branch.—
Joedy McCreary,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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Searching for a message Image Now that Mr. Trump is in office, his overwhelm-the-opposition strategy — rolling back measures on race, D.E.I. and L.G.B.T.Q. rights in lightning-quick succession — has left Democrats gasping for air.—
Shane Goldmacher,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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There is value in doing that at times, but there is also value in strategically avoiding things for a certain period of time.—
Malaka Gharib,
NPR,
6 Feb. 2025
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Almost Friday’s office in Venice functions like a television studio while avoiding the town’s red tape.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
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The conflict over the Colorado River in many ways resembles California’s internal conflict, including an uncertainty over whether governments can overturn or ignore water rights stretching back to the 19th century.—
Dan Walters,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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Speaker Adams said the City Council was exploring its options in overturning the City Hall's advice.—
Dan Gooding,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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