Sentence examples for legally unsound from inspiring English sources
Tax deniers often make the government's case rather easy, as many base their defenses on the legally unsound arguments that got them in trouble in the first place.
If the courts were willing to declare our system for appointing counsel legally unsound, you can bet that change would be quick.
Initially he had hoped to continue as a councillor and LGA chair while advising Johnson on an unpaid, informal basis, but he eventually succumbed to Labour charges that such an arrangement would have been legally unsound.
News broke Tuesday that a Pakistani high court dismissed blasphemy charges against Rimsha Masih, a young Christian girl, finding the accusation that she burned pages of the Quran to be "legally unsound".
"It would be patently unfair, and legally unsound, to impose on Cinemark, a private business in the entertainment industry, the duty and burden to have foreseen and prevented the criminal equivalent of a meteor falling from the sky," the motion said.
According to Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at American University, Johnson's suggestion is legally unsound because it is the president, not the Senate, who has the constitutional authority to decide whether the nuclear deal is a treaty or an executive agreement.
The problem is that potential remedies, such as a new election in Palm Beach County, seem politically unsound and legally questionable.
As a Christian clergywoman and director of an organization that works with religious leaders from different traditions, I would argue that while the pain caused to believers by the defilement of cherished religious symbols and teachings is real and traumatic, laws that criminalize "defamation" of religion or inciting religious hatred are doctrinally unsound and legally dangerous.
"The war-against-Al-Qaeda paradigm put us in a position where our legal authorities to detain and interrogate didn't match up with those of our allies, so we ended up building a system that's often rejected as strategically unsound and legally suspect by even our closest allies," says Matthew Waxman, a law professor at Columbia who worked on detainee issues in the Bush administration.
Any moral mistake in the reasoning leading to a legal principle might render the conclusion about the principle unsound, and the principle itself thus not legally valid.
