Word: overturn
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...Solicitor General under Ronald Reagan, Friedattempted to overturn the Roe v. Wadedecision. He currently says that he will upholdreproductive rights laws...
Lewis, who will succeed Jewett on July 1, is not likely to overturn the decision...
...pass in the final two seconds of the Super Bowl, Jack Carter conceded that Lopez had indeed broken the law-and then went on to argue that the law itself was wrong. Thirty-seven months and two appeals later, the obscure public defender persuaded five Supreme Court Justices to overturn a law that several hundred legislators and the President of the U.S. had already approved...
...indications from the University indicate this is a closed matter," Liston said. "I think it takes a more drastic step to overturn that [decision] than merely a letter or a telephone conversation...
Senate Democrats flexed their muscles and forced Republican colleagues to abandon an effort to overturn President Clinton's striker-protection order. The directive bars federal agencies from doing business with companies that hire permanent replacement workers during a strike. Opponents fell two votes short of stopping a Democratic filibuster...