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nonofficial
/ ˌnɒnəˈfɪʃəl /
adjective
not official or formal
Example Sentences
Although the court warned district courts to proceed with delicacy, it offered presidents no conclusive shield from discovery in their nonofficial roles.
The Pac-12 had courted Memphis as the eighth football-playing school, but Memphis athletic director Ed Scott told the Memphis Commercial Appeal a week ago that the school was working to join a Power 4 conference — a nonofficial term for the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC, four conferences that operate with relative autonomy.
First, it was the radical July 1 immunity ruling of the Supreme Court majority that sent the case back to the district court to apply its anti-constitutional holding that only “nonofficial” presidential actions could be subject to criminal prosecution.
On the other hand, if the court found insufficient evidence of nonofficial criminal conduct, under the July 1 immunity decision, that case would be over.
As Rick Pildes, a constitutional scholar, pointed out online while following the oral arguments, the justices have all the facts they need in order to decide, at the very least, which of the acts Trump is charged with are indisputably nonofficial, and thus not immune from prosecution.
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