unconstitutional

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Recent Examples of unconstitutional In response to an Executive Order to review and rescind regulations that are deemed unconstitutional or undermine national interests, the IRS issued IRS Notice 2025-23. Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025 His public defense team has filed a slew of motions to prevent the possibility, which included arguments that capital punishment is unconstitutional, breaks with evolving standards of decency, violates international law and is arbitrarily applied. Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 25 Apr. 2025 Trump's March executive order overhauling how U.S. elections are run prompted swift lawsuits from the League of United Latin American Citizens, the League of Women Voters Education Fund, the Democratic National Committee and others, who called it unconstitutional. Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2025 Just days after the rally, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled the state’s marijuana statutes unconstitutional, leading to Sinclair’s release. Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unconstitutional
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unconstitutional
Adjective
  • Andy Garcia reflects on his Godfather dream coming true and 'unjust' Sofia Coppola criticism He's worked consistently as an actor in the years since, playing a slew of politicians and authority figures in films like Ghostbusters (2016), Geostorm (2017), Wrath of Man (2021), and Expend4bles (2023).
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 May 2025
  • In the finale’s last moments, the show’s signature voiceover alludes heavily to the fact that Joe still views himself as the victim of an unjust society, rather than a menacing serial killer.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Agents were driving down Anderson Road in unmarked cars when Perez-Rodriguez allegedly walked into the roadway holding a machete, according to a criminal complaint.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
  • Finally, get to grips with the fact that this dataset only includes passwords that have become publicly available in criminal forums online.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
Adjective
  • The list of prohibited and restricted items, as found on the CBP website, includes alcohol, biological materials, firearms, food and produce such as fruits and vegetables, soil, wildlife, fish, and gold, among other items.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • For example, Customs and Border Protection in the United States maintains a list of prohibited and restricted items for anyone entering the US and links to other departments if permits are required.
    Erica Kasper, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Powell’s dismissal would be unprecedented and, according to Powell, impermissible under current law.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
  • There’s a constitutional argument to be made that such a restriction on the president’s power is impermissible.
    The Editors, National Review, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Anthony Aguirre, 25, Aguirre pleaded guilty in August to distributing fentanyl to a minor and being a felon in possession of a gun.
    Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Guentzel was also guilty of two penalties, both of which were of the unnecessary variety.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Marin County Sheriff’s Office alleges Christopher Britton, of Fairfield, burglarized classrooms at several schools in February, making off with credit cards and running up thousands of dollars in unauthorized purchases.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
  • By Christopher Elliot | Problem Solved Q: Someone made an unauthorized purchase of $1,365 using my PayPal email address.
    Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Even children and adolescents express more willingness to shun and punish moral transgressors than people who do something personally obnoxious or offensive but not immoral.
    Jen Cole Wright, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Regardless of what transpired between the two cast members, on or off screen, Aspen was unfairly portrayed as an immoral character.
    Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Interpretations of the Torah, as well as associations with the Holocaust, have led tattoos to long be considered forbidden or taboo within Judaism, though contemporary attitudes towards it have somewhat shifted.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Thompson, Ha and Brownell also say that Season 4 will dive much more into the Regency era’s upstairs-downstairs class politics than previous seasons, due to Sophie being of a lower class than Benedict and the Bridgerton family, as well as the fairytale and forbidden love tropes.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025

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