Sentence examples for contorted law from inspiring English sources

There is no evidence that Judge Simpson contorted law and precedent to reach his conclusion.

They deliberately contorted the law to justify decisions that had already been made, making them complicit in those decisions.

As we all now know, that sloppy and craven legal analysis contorted the law to authorize clearly illegal CIA tactics.

Since I started my fragrance purge, I've seen how obfuscated and contorted the law can be about disclosing the stuff we spread over ourselves and breathe every day.

Vague statutory lines drawn by Congress, as well as loose oversight, are a fourth contributor to regulatory capture because they give captive regulators plenty of room to stretch and contort the law without necessarily breaking the law or even having to explain their actions.

Instead, the court largely reaffirmed its prior decisions and rejected new attempts by the plaintiffs' bar to contort federal law and procedures to suit their purposes".

But they don't have the right to contort the law's meaning so that one phrase taken out of context undermines the rest of its provisions, or to rewrite the history of its enactment to support their ridiculous claims.

To contort these laws to justify punishing Mr. Heicklen, whose court-appointed counsel describe him as "a shabby old man distributing his silly leaflets from the sidewalk outside a courthouse," is not only unconstitutional but unpatriotic.

It is beyond ironic that the same page would contort settled tax law to assert that special tax treatment was part of the company's rescue and disregard the Federal Reserve's arrival as A.I.G.'s primary global regulator.

What do the bars do?" HIS petition reflects how criminal justice has been contorted by 30-year-old laws that mandate longer minimum sentences for some lower-level drug crimes than for rape, manslaughter and armed robbery.

According to the article, when the pope saw Cardinal Law, his face became contorted, and he immediately hurried on.