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To: Babwa

What legal meaning is there to “codify”?


28 posted on 08/01/2022 2:53:42 PM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: blackdog

Codify is the word the Left is using. USA Today defines is this way:

What does it mean to codify Roe v. Wade?
To codify something means to “arrange laws or rules into a systematic code,” according to Cornell Law’s Legal Information Institute.

When lawmakers say they want to “codify Roe” it means they want inscribe the abortion rights the ruling once protected into federal law.


35 posted on 08/01/2022 2:58:19 PM PDT by Babwa
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