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
• 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 | [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 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
• 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
• But a federal court intervened in May to end the impasse and ordered the 2022 elections to proceed on a map the state court held as unconstitutional.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
• The use of the law was found unconstitutional and the law itself was invalidated.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• And the court said that town boundaries and school districts being coterminous is unconstitutional and causes the problem, and that hasn’t changed.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
• The drug companies say these rules are coercive, trample on their rights to free speech, and are unconstitutional and bad in other ways.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The opinion also found unconstitutional a 2005 state law that restored voting rights two years after the completion of a felony sentence.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
• The Kentucky Supreme Court later deemed both laws unconstitutional.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024