inseverable

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If a provision of a law is inseverable from the rest of that law, when the court strikes down the inseverable portion, the entire law fails.

From Washington Post

“Their brief does argue that the whole ACA is inseverable, but it also says that the court should limit its relief to those provisions that actually cause injury to the plaintiffs,” he said.

From Seattle Times

The opinion instructs O’Connor to answer two questions: Which parts of the ACA “are indeed inseverable” now that the mandate is no longer enforced and whether a ruling in the case should apply only to the Republican-led states that sued to overturn the law, an issue raised by Trump administration lawyers.

From Washington Post

His show is an attempt to better understand what’s behind this inseverable connection.

From Los Angeles Times

But Texas et al. makes a far more radical claim: The phantom mandate is not only unconstitutional but “inseverable” from the rest of the law.

From The New Yorker