How to Use equal protection in a Sentence

equal protection

noun

• The Supreme Court ruled at the time that the state of Texas had not violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• That’s the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• But treating like cases alike is crucial to the equal protection of the laws.
  — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
• The case opened the door for equal protection under the law, but the work continues today.
  — National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2020
• And the Constitution says that no state can deprive any person of the equal protection of the laws.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• And all of these cases could tell us a lot about how the court is interpreting the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• Kepley is white, and the 14th Amendment deals with equal protection under the law and due process.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• The court reversed a lower court finding and said that the law does not violate the equal protections clause.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2023
• West Flagler may decide to sue again over the issue of equal protection rather than the issue of where the betting takes place.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2024
• The justices have agreed to hear only the claim that Tennessee’s law denies trans minors the equal protection of the law.
  — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 24 June 2024
• But while Brown's decision stemmed from the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause, Loving stemmed from it and the due process clause.
  — TheWeek, 14 Oct. 2020
• The Justice Department said the laws in both states violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
  — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2022
• In the same year, the state Senate sought to nullify the 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which gave blacks equal protection under the law and the right to vote.
  — Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The justices could have taken a leap toward equal protection in Roe.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• Such a shift would most likely work against the defendants who most need equal protection under the law.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 6 Nov. 2018
• With mothers like these, the fight for liberty and equal protection is raising a new army.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• And all of them refer to rights such as equal protection, speech, and assembly, any of which could have an effect on election law.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
• There could even be a federal role in fighting such crimes, if states fail to provide Asian Americans the equal protection of the laws.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 Apr. 2021
• Orr argues the practice violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
• In 2017, the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which affirmed the lower court’s ruling that the districts violated the plaintiffs’ equal protection rights.
  — Joey Flechas, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The company grandly invokes the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• In 2000, the Supreme Court looked at the issue of equal protection, which requires the government to treat individuals in the same way.
  — Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
• Sure, there was still inequality of racial status despite the equal protection of the law as written in the 14th Amendment.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
• The judges said the ban would likely violate the right under the U.S. Constitution to equal protection under the law.
  — L.m. Sixel, Houston Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
• In the contexts of race and gender, Justice O’Connor’s impact on the court’s equal protection jurisprudence was deep.
  — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• And so that clearly violates the equal protection clause.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2021
• The 14th Amendment requires equal protection under the law.
  — Jon Campbell, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2020
• Day wants balance, though, and that means equal protection for his quarterbacks.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2021
• The fight over what equal protection truly means has split the country since the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Any consideration of due process is no longer before the court, since the Biden administration’s appeal for the Supreme Court to take up this case focused only on equal protection.
  — Orion Rummler, Them, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024