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- verb transitive To
enforce inadequately .
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under- + enforce
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There's certainly good reason why you might want to underenforce rights on collateral review - as Scalia argued in Bousley, "no criminal-law system can function without rules of procedure conjoined with a rule of finality."
When the Supreme Court announces a "new rule" of constitutional law, does that mean the right it articulates did not exist in the past? Ann Althouse 2007
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