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The law also invalidates birth certificates for those who updated their gender markers.—
Marissa Martinez,
NBC news,
11 Mar. 2026 -
The ruling invalidates tariffs that had pushed the average US tariff rate to its highest level since the 1930s, affecting imports from dozens of trading partners and touching virtually every sector of the US economy.—
Mohammad N. Elahee,
Hartford Courant,
24 Feb. 2026
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If competing proposals appear on a ballot and are successful, the one that receives the most votes nullifies the other.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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This is because climate change and ecological collapse are very likely to cause political fragmentation that nullifies legal and cultural precedents like abolition, and bring about agrarian and manufacturing crises and scarcities in which people are forced into labor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
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The bill also forbids police departments from sharing data with any network that doesn’t follow the same prohibitions and confines data sharing to Connecticut agencies and agencies in New York, Rhode Island or Massachusetts that agree to abide by the same restrictions.—
Sara Bedigian,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
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Since New York’s Constitution forbids both partisan gerrymandering and mid-decade redistricting, the only option for Dems to game the midterm map here was to have a judge intervene.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
9 Mar. 2026
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