justifications

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Even so, Muzaffar Chishti of the Migration Policy Institute said that the executive branch has vast discretion in immigration law, particularly when invoking national security justifications, and defense attorneys may face an uphill battle.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

To be sure, there are justifications for the enthusiasm.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

An agency’s justifications for its actions can’t be post hoc or pretextual.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026

He submits that American justifications of slavery rested on ideas that were in place long before slavery’s expansion in 19th-century America—before the American Founding or even the establishment of the English Atlantic world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Without its own justifications, the Dream would collapse upon itself.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates