How to Use unconstitutional in a Sentence

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• The law may be unconstitutional.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In 2020, the Wisconsin Supreme Court overruled two lower-court opinions that said the lame-duck changes were unconstitutional.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• SpaceX denied the charges against it and argued the agency itself was unconstitutional.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
• But the 5th Circuit overturned his conviction and struck down the law as unconstitutional.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a ban on abortions after six weeks was unconstitutional.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2023
• That prompted a lawsuit filed by the parents of three teenage transgender girls that asked a court to declare the ban unconstitutional and block its enforcement.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• In 2005, the state Supreme Court weighed in, agreeing with the lower court’s finding that the state’s funding system for school facilities was unconstitutional.
  — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2024
• If the Supreme Court later rules the legislation is unconstitutional and decides to strike it down, the government could refuse to respect the decision.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• This May it was struck down as unconstitutional by a federal judge, but by that point the law had already served its short-term purpose of helping liberal judges in their 2022 elections.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
• The cash was supposed to come out of a €60 billion green fund that was scrapped last week because it was found to be unconstitutional (the cash was redirected from Germany’s pandemic coffers).
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
• Only Alito has claimed that any response by the people’s branch to the ethics lapses by justices is invalid and unconstitutional.
  — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2023
• The court could also deem the law to be unconstitutional, amounting to a fundamental breach of Israeli democracy.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• Just a few weeks ago, a federal judge ordered major changes to fix ‘unconstitutional’ conditions in the state’s prisons.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• The court ruled 4-3 in favor of Democrats who argued that the legislative maps are unconstitutional because districts drawn aren't contiguous.
  — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2023
• Proposition 187 passed, but was quickly stayed by courts and ruled unconstitutional a few years later.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The new state statute has been contested by some Georgia district attorneys, who have filed a lawsuit calling the law unconstitutional.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2023
• In 2022, legislation that would have created funding for charter schools was passed but was also deemed unconstitutional last year by the state Supreme Court.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 9 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024