How to Use unconstitutional in a Sentence

unconstitutional

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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
  • 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 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 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
  • 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 | Pgattis@al.com, 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
  • 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 defense objected, claiming the search of the bins in which the documents were found was unconstitutional.
    James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But the commission had to be approved by the supreme court, which struck it down as unconstitutional the following year.
    Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2024
  • In the four cases that weren’t settled, judges declined to declare the state law unconstitutional.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The bill is unconstitutional for a host of reasons, but several stand out.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The law in Tennessee, which was the first state to restrict drag performances in public, was blocked and ruled unconstitutional.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • After years of legal battles, it was ruled unconstitutional in 1998, when Judge Mariana Pfaelzer struck it down.
    Eladio B. Bobadilla / Made By History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • If Damian rules that the law is unconstitutional, Moody is recommending that the commission should appeal, according to Stafford.
    News Service Of Florida, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024

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