Pseudo-legality

Isser Woloch sees this as one questionable episode in the public life of modern France, 'a nation where coups clothed in pseudo-legality have repeatedly changed the rules of the game'.

Many executions by the military rebels were given a veneer of pseudo-legality by trials, although they were effectively little different from extra-judicial murder.

Will it not also be obvious 'pseudo-legality' to have that which seeks to legitimize itself in order to defend intransigently a mechanism prepared to assure voting by the illiterates, prohibited by law?