"laws that target" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase can be used when referring to laws that are specifically written to target certain individuals, industries, or activities. For example, "The government has introduced new laws that target large corporations and their tax avoidance schemes."
The police impounded $600,000 in cash and some jewelry under laws that target the proceeds of crime.
does not distinguish between laws that are generally applicable and laws that target particular religious practices". Smith, 494 U.S. at 894 (opinion concurring in judgment).
More generally, the court said last year in Reed v. Town of Gilbert that laws "that target speech based on its communicative content" were "presumptively unconstitutional".
Here's what laws that target Planned Parenthood actually do: They reduce health care options for millions of women around the country who will never want or have an abortion.
Continuing the direction of those policies, including reforming a bail system that targets the poor, drug laws that target minorities and an education system that saddles college students with unbearable debts, must be a priority if the United States is to be the land of equal opportunity it brands itself to be.
Voter ID laws in Texas and North Carolina were found by courts to be racially discriminatory by intent, given that it is often easier to write laws that target black and Hispanic voters than it is to target Democrats more broadly.
The sentences were imposed under hardline emergency laws that targeted activists involved in demonstrations in February and March as fervour from the north African popular uprisings swept into the gulf kingdom.
As Mr. Orban introduced laws that targeted homeless people and asylum seekers, Hungary's official churches remained either silent, in the case of the Roman Catholic church, or supported Mr. Orban's position.
Indeed, the Reconstruction-era Congress that passed the Fourteenth Amendment enacted civil rights laws that targeted not only explicit racial classifications but neutrally worded, generally applicable laws that were used to deny basic civil rights to African Americans.
He issued thunderous dissents when the court upheld the right to abortion in 1992 and in 2003 when it struck down the sex laws that targeted gays and lesbians.
Texas -- which struck down sodomy laws that targeted gay men; and the 2013 US v. Windsor -- recognizing and providing federal benefits to same-sex married couple in states where their marriages were legal.
