unconstitutional

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Recent Examples of unconstitutional Given that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has already significantly undermined past interpretations of Voting Rights Act, there is significant anticipation that the majority-minority districts will be struck down as unconstitutional. Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025 Pardo first advocated sending the question to voters back in August after three judges with the Third DCA handed down an initial order upholding a lower court’s ruling finding the city’s decision to postpone the election via ordinance was unconstitutional. Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025 But make no mistake, this is a blatant, unconstitutional attempt to seize power. Suzette Valladares, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025 In May, the DOJ filed lawsuits against New York and Vermont, arguing that state laws requiring oil companies to contribute billions of dollars into funds to pay for damage caused by climate change were unconstitutional. Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unconstitutional
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  • The lawsuit accuses Facebook's parent company, Meta, of negligence and breach of contract after continuously deactiving his commercial account for unjust and improper reasons.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Which land’s unjust deeds does one examine?
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • The Office of the Inspector General launched a criminal investigation and determined the shots had been fired from where two FBI agents and an Oregon State Police officer had been standing.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Abrego was brought back in June to face criminal charges of transporting migrants living in the United States illegally.
    Ted Hesson, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • There is, however, room for questions about where the line between prohibited and acceptable political involvement will fall in practice.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • The list of prohibited and restricted items, as found on the CBP website, includes alcohol, biological materials, firearms, food and produce such as fruits and vegetables, soil, wildlife, fish, and gold, among other items.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • This case would have determined whether one of Louisiana's two majority-Black Congressional Districts was an impermissible racial gerrymander.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Leonard would also like to see a new independent ethics commission housed within the Office of the Auditor General that could handle complaints alleging public employees engaged in impermissible political activities on the job, appeals of FOIA denials, disputes over NDAs and more.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • Burns was indicted by a grand jury in Fayetteville in November and pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography in February, according to court documents.
    NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
  • McBee pleaded guilty to falsifying documents for unauthorized federal crop insurance benefits in November 2024 after waiving his right to a grand jury.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Citing a 1993 Florida law statute and a Miami Dade County ordinance, Fernandez said his office will revoke or refuse to renew local business tax receipts, formerly known as occupational licenses, for people or entities engaging in unauthorized business activities with Cuba.
    Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • American social media influencer Ethan Guo has been released from a Chilean military base in Antarctica after spending two months in detention following an unauthorized landing.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • Ladapo said the decision was not reached according to the data, but instead on his view that vaccine mandates are immoral and outside the scope of the government’s authority.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Even the paper’s biggest triumph—which, without giving too much away, brings it into direct conflict with its toilet-paper stablemate—involves a farcically immoral compromise that tramples the church-state divide between news and product sales (and, worse, isn’t all that funny).
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Describing the damping precisely meant accidentally allowing forbidden precision in position or momentum.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Anthropic has introduced weekly rate limits for its Claude chatbot focused on curbing excessive—and forbidden—usage of Claude Code.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 July 2025

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“Unconstitutional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unconstitutional. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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