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The question is whether creating majority-minority voting districts violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and the 15th Amendment, which says that the right to vote can’t be “denied or abridged” on account of race.

It isn’t just that players can now get paid, or that they can transfer whenever they want, or that they could stay in school for longer than ever on account of the pandemic.

But the 75-yard score was ultimately called back on account of backup center J’Onre Reed being too far downfield.

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In 2022, a court freed him on account of his age and good behaviour and he was deported to France.

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The current bill is “less ambitious” than the 2023 version in that it no longer includes a pathway to citizenship for immigrants — a concession aimed at appealing to Republicans on account of the “political moment that we’re in,” Escobar admitted.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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