France’s Constitutional Council on Thursday scrapped much of a contentious immigration law passed by parliament in mid-December. The Council, France’s highest constitutional authority, ruled that 32 of 86 articles had no sufficient connection to the actual proposed law. President Emmanuel Macron may now put his key plan into effect without the deleted articles, observers said. It was unlikely that the government would present a new bill incorporating the deleted passages, broadcaster France Info reported, citing government sources. Under pressure from the conservative opposition party Les Répu…