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"Foreign criminals pose a danger to British citizens and must be removed, but so often this is frustrated by spurious legal claims based on human rights claims, not asylum claims," he said.

Trump alleges the program was deceptively edited to favor Harris, a charge that 1st Amendment experts say is spurious.

DeFilippo said she believes that she and her daughter were arrested on spurious charges merely to pressure her late husband into pleading guilty to a murder he didn’t commit.

Those people may suggest it's a finger up to an establishment that they think finds spurious excuses to smear them.

Labour has repeatedly accused the previous government of leaving a £22bn "black hole" in the public finances - a claim previous chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, described as "spurious".