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But the equivalence is grossly inapposite for another reason, which is perhaps even more fundamental.

The line of cases that led to Roe, and led from it to other rights, is “inapposite,” Alito wrote primly.

Now, however, we can expect at least some courts to discourage relying on courts to pursue social justice by misapplying inapposite laws.

But of course when that happens, states will rejoin that the court also dismissed disparate impact as inapposite.

This type of verbal infelicity underscores the limitations of automatic, computerized word and spelling-check mechanisms, whereby a word or words can slip through undetected, regardless of the context of usage, however inapposite.