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The use of the judicial system against one's opponents, often only to attack or condemn a rival. quotations examples
We started calling it “conservative lawfare”, and it drove the progressives nuts.
2014 July 17, Glenn Reynolds, quoting Kurt Schlichter, "Conservative Insurgency", Instapundit, retrieved 2014-08-02
Earlier this year the environment minister, Sussan Ley, said the “lawfare that is such a part of today’s environmental landscape can be crippling to business as well as to environmental organisations”.
2020 June 18, Lisa Cox, quoting Sussan Ley, “Claims major projects are being delayed by environmental 'lawfare' dismissed in new research”, in The Guardian