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Notably, the bill explicitly strips federal officials of qualified immunity—a legal doctrine that has long shielded government agents from personal liability even in cases of egregious constitutional violations.

A Taliban spokesperson for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Ministry, which enforces strict religious doctrines, dismissed reports that women were being forced to wear the burka.

To present the doctrine as merely a kind of postmortem scrub with spiritual soap and water is to miss much of its significance.

Saudi Arabia is the cradle of the austere Sunni doctrine known as Wahhabism, which embraces a strict interpretation of Islamic law.

Mr. Sauer also tried an end-run around the Court’s major questions doctrine, which says the executive needs express authority from Congress for actions of large significance.