Examples of bill of attainder in a Sentence
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And a September report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service noted that China’s Huawei Technologies and Russia’s Kaspersky Lab had previously failed in challenging restrictions on their U.S. businesses based on bill of attainder arguments.
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Eva Dou, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
The law’s failure to target any company but TikTok is a key issue in the company’s own legal challenge, which says the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on bills of attainder, or laws that punish a specific business or person without a judicial proceeding.
—Lisa Bonos, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
Eva Dou, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
The law’s failure to target any company but TikTok is a key issue in the company’s own legal challenge, which says the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on bills of attainder, or laws that punish a specific business or person without a judicial proceeding.
—Lisa Bonos, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
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First Known Use
1787, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of bill of attainder was
in 1787
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“Bill of attainder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bill%20of%20attainder. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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bill of attainder
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