false step

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Any false step would be immediately processed into a viral moment on right-wing airwaves.

From Slate

It’s the poignant devastation of knowing one false step or bad decision could reshape your life that knocks us over.

From Salon

Rather, it’s the poignant devastation of knowing one false step or bad decision could reshape your life that knocks us over.

From Salon

Gen. Edwin Meese, Michael Mukasey and William Barr, joined by prominent conservative professors, agree on the stakes: A false step by the court “would be ruinous for the Nation’s tradition of free and fair elections.”

From Los Angeles Times

Don’t make a false step of your own in this week’s Slate News Quiz.

From Slate