How to Use equal protection in a Sentence

equal protection

noun

• But treating like cases alike is crucial to the equal protection of the laws.
  — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The Justice Department said the laws in both states violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
  — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2022
• The justices could have taken a leap toward equal protection in Roe.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The lawsuit argues that the law is invalid under the due process and equal protection clauses of the state constitution.
  — David Eggert, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• And several federal courts have held that after-the-fact changes raise questions of due process and equal protection.
  — Ian MacDougall, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2022
• The second suit, which focused more narrowly on the book bans, argues the law violates the first and 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.
  — CBS News, 29 Dec. 2023
• The law also raises an equal protection issue, according to the suit.
  — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 4 May 2022
• The lawsuit argues that the law violates the First Amendment’s free speech protection and the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• If a Black person, for example, paid the same taxes as a white person, those taxes were not spent in a way that gave them equal protection and treatment.
  — Yessenia Funes, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• The filing asserts that the administration of the drug was a violation of the inmates’ due process rights and their right to equal protection under the law.
  — Nyssa Kruse, Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2022
• In the mid-90s, the Harvard professor began work on a new constitution for South Africa, one that enshrined equal protection under the law for Blacks and whites.
  — Joseph P. Kahn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• States have often been forced to redraw maps found to have violated the Voting Rights Act or the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
  — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• There is disagreement among the justices about whether the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment means the Constitution must be colorblind.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• His client has been denied due process and equal protection and trial by jury as guaranteed by the Ohio constitute.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 Mar. 2022
• Every player, in fact, gets funny moments: The laughs are doled out so judiciously that the actors’ contracts may have been drawn up with the equal protection clause in mind.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• Governor Gretchen Whitmer has said the law is invalid under the due process and equal protection clauses of the state constitution.
  — Jennifer McDermott, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2022
• Like overturning Roe, securing equal protection for the unborn is likely to be a long-term effort.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• In addition to due process, Obergefell v. Hodges relies on the equal protection clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
  — Julie Moreau, NBC News, 8 June 2022
• Three white families, Texas and a small number of other states claim the law is based on race and is unconstitutional under the equal protection clause.
  — Felicia Fonseca and Mark Sherman, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
• The new program gave migrants equal protection under labor law.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• The 14th Amendment’s due process and equal protection clauses have long been the legal basis for gender equality cases.
  — Lauren Thompson, The Conversation, 6 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024