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both occasions rejected the legitimacy of the agency’s action. Indeed, in Riegel, Scalia dismissed a formal and thoroughly explained interpretation
rather than ruling on the legitimacy of its land practices in general or trying to hear virtual land disputes directly. (Of course, just as the king
their home open to government agents for records inspections.” While the court did not dispute the legitimacy of the government’s goal of eradicating
passage of time, as Americans started to work through the implications of the doctrine of separation of powers, did challenges to the legitimacy of
association of the new with the old may undermine the legitimacy of the established claims.15 In her essay on the use of “ like race” arguments in the gay
presumption in favor of the legitimacy of internal uses (and especially threats) of force by the state and a strong presumption against the use or threat
service conception of authority, the legitimacy of an official’s power is dependent on whether the official is in an epistemically superior position
ways has worsened their plight. Gideon provides a degree of legitimacy for the status quo. Even full enforcement of Gideon would not significantly
courageous and righteous; it is also an attempt to imbue Dobbs—a decision steeped in con- troversy and critique—with the same patina of legitimacy
argued, lies in its powerful “criterion of legitimacy,” which links the legal authority of public officers and institutions to the principle that “state