Grassley is using a legal term here “animus.” Victoria Toensing explained on Hannity yesterday that this is considered worse than bias in the legal sense.
Grassley is using a legal term here “animus.” Victoria Toensing explained on Hannity yesterday that this is considered worse than bias in the legal sense.
“Animus means a motive or intent to interfere with the exercise of a right; not hostility, ill-will or personal animosity.” In his 1889 law dictionary, William Anderson defined animus as mind, disposition, intention (or) will. Similarly, from the anonymous Latin for Lawyers: “Animus: mind, intention.”