How to Use unconstitutional in a Sentence

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• The law may be unconstitutional.
• In the years since, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled parts of the bill are unconstitutional.
  — Jacob Scholl, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
• The city also claimed in court that the Ash Street lease was unconstitutional, the appeal said.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• The state's Supreme Court ruled the law was unconstitutional.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2023
• The Supreme Court ruled that the search was unconstitutional but that the school officials involved in the search were not liable.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• The change comes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that such restrictions are unconstitutional.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
• In May 2020, a district court judge ruled that parts of the law were unconstitutional and that the law had established a pay-to-vote system.
  — Bianca Fortis, ProPublica, 21 July 2022
• The suit asks the court to declare the ban unconstitutional and block its enforcement.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 1 June 2022
• The suit asked the court to declare the ban unconstitutional and block its enforcement.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• Sheetz paid the fee and obtained his permit, and then sued to challenge the fee as unconstitutional.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• At first, the family had hoped that the courts would declare the new law unconstitutional.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The filing asks the court to declare the ban unconstitutional and invalid.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 June 2022
• The court of appeals deemed the decision to bypass the IRC and the partisan nature of the map unconstitutional.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2023
• But in May, the Supreme Court struck that limit down as unconstitutional.
  — Liz Ruskin, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
• Casey White should not be charged with felony murder in the death of Vicky White because the law is unconstitutional, his lawyers argue in a court filing.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 20 Sep. 2022
• The justices have yet to take up a case on whether statewide bans on transgender health care are unconstitutional.
  — James Factora, Them, 7 Oct. 2024
• The Supreme Court said that was unconstitutional in 1995.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2024
• The maps, which the Ohio Supreme Court ruled were unconstitutional for a litany of reasons, including diluting the Black vote in districts across the state.
  — cleveland, 31 May 2022
• But in February, a judge in Arlington County ruled that the search that turned up the gun and drugs was unconstitutional.
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
• The creators are asking the court to declare the law unconstitutional and stop it from being enforced.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 14 May 2024
• But many firms backpedal in 2023, and the Supreme Court for the first time rules that preferences based on race in college admissions are unconstitutional.
  — Emma Kumer, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• In 1999, the Supreme Court heard the case of Wyoming v. Houghton, and reviewed the argument that a search of a woman’s purse during a routine traffic stop was unconstitutional.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Then along comes Joseph F. Snee, Jr., who blows the room apart with his pronouncement that these unconstitutional changes to the ordinances will bankrupt the town.
  — Patrick Wallis, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
• This is just one of three challenges to the law; a judge had already partially blocked enforcement of the law and called it unconstitutional.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
• Trump had tried to argue that the case was unconstitutional and that Willis’s work for Democrats represents a conflict.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
• And the judge who says this is unconstitutional was appointed by Biden.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The high court ruled it unconstitutional for the county to keep surplus proceeds.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
• Congress is, of course, powerless to revive a law that the Supreme Court has struck down as unconstitutional.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2022
• The lawsuit argues that the fee, which is charged only to those seeking development permits, is unconstitutional.
  — Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2024
• Might the courts eventually find the CTA unconstitutional?
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025