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To me, this is the key distinction that allows questioning the policy choices a candidate for a judgeship makes, but does not allow one to illegitimize DoJ staff members on the basis of their policy choices, especially when such agree with the President.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Punishing a lawyer for his clients (continued) 2010

To me, this is the key distinction that allows questioning the policy choices a candidate for a judgeship makes, but does not allow one to illegitimize DoJ staff members on the basis of their policy choices, especially when such agree with the President.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Punishing a lawyer for his clients (continued) 2010

The ruling in that case does not, in any way, illegitimize the struggle for election reform, or diminish the degree to which the Dhimmicrats in this state have skewed & screwed things up.

Sound Politics: More on the bogus finding in the voter registration court case 2006

I am saying that it will not explicitly go against the SCOTUS ruling because doing so will illegitimize its claim to power.

SCOTUS to POTUS: RTFM « Whatever 2006

Sometimes they would illegitimize two or three generations in order to find a marriage within the forbidden degrees.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

Katherine to concede her rights, and illegitimize her daughter, in favor of the offspring of Anna Bullen: she steadily refused, was declared contumacious, and the sentence of divorce pronounced in 1533.

Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827

Because you want to minimize, even illegitimize, Powell's historic endorsement.

CNN Political Ticker 2008

From conspiracy theories about the President's birth certificate, to ongoing accusations that Obama is a Muslim, socialist, Marxist, thug -- even Satan incarnate -- these attacks step way outside the realm of political disagreement or religious differences, and seek to illegitimize and demonize a President who hasn't even been in office for a full year; who hasn't yet significantly changed the political or social landscape of America; and who, coincidentally, happens to be America's most powerful and popular minority figure.

Jane Devin: Between Blinders & Bible-Thumping, Fanciful Flights & Party Suicide, Where is America Heading? 2009

To illegitimize Sidiqqi’s concerns further, the entrance of the mosque is on a different street than that of the restaurant, though the buildings are 191 feet apart.

Muslims Try to Shut Down Property Rights of Tennessee Neighbor - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

The bigotry is not mine; it belongs to those who would illegitimize the children of same-sex couples simply because they don’t approve of the lifestyle of the parents.

Lean Left » Blog Archive » Today’s Civil Rights Movement – GOP Style 2006