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The main targets of the law were families who timed visits to the United States so their sons would be born there for the express purpose of later dodging conscription.

Responding to outraged constituents by telling them to “call the Republicans” is a way of dodging responsibility and accountability.

It dodged a freeway project in the 1950s, moving its location to make way for an off-ramp.

Next, Starr wrote, “under the pretext of protecting the violated rights of French California” — where have we heard that dodge before? —warships would sail into key California harbors and … voila!

Hegseth is hardly the only prominent Republican official who has dodged the question since the president outrageously claimed that Ukraine “started” the war.