judicial review

noun

1

: review sense 5

2

: a constitutional doctrine that gives to a court system the power to annul legislative or executive acts which the judges declare to be unconstitutional

Example Sentences

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The conservative majority largely agreed with the state of Texas that Senate Bill 8 had effectively immunized itself from federal judicial review, at least in the short term. —Matt Ford, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2022

The Saudi government also routinely arrests people without judicial review, according to Human Rights Watch. —Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 12 July 2022

These monetary strategies are particularly important right now because, unlike traditional agency action, which the Supreme Court has proven so eager to strike down, the courts have regularly ruled that monetary policy is practically invulnerable to judicial review. —Aaron Regunberg, The New Republic, 19 May 2022

By avoiding judicial review, the Justice Department attorneys concluded, the Texas law violates the constitution and hinders U.S. sovereignty. —Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2021

The state’s governor called for a judicial review. —Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 June 2022

Following the hypothetical dispute in the joint session of Congress, the presiding officer would then offer Arizona three options: redo the election, ask for a federal judicial review, or have the Republican state legislature appoint its own electors, according to the memo. —Robert Legare, CBS News, 3 June 2022

The established antitrust approach—economic analysis above all, with consumer welfare as its lodestar, a central role for judicial review and the rule of law, and embracing innovation and dynamic competition—has paid astonishing dividends. —Joshua D. Wright, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021

But Judge Ted Grove found no need for a judicial review in 2021, saying the new ordinance hadn’t been challenged and that the commission was trying to invalidate its own ordinance. —oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1771, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Legal Definition

judicial review

noun

1

: review

2

: a constitutional doctrine that gives to a court system the power to annul legislative or executive acts which the judges declare to be unconstitutional

also : the process of using this power see also checks and balances, Marbury v. Madison