unconstitutionality
Americannoun
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Elizabeth Price Foley and Jason Torchinsky’s op-ed, on the unconstitutionality of disparate-impact theory, left me with no such “impression that any use of statistics to prove intent to discriminate is illegal.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
“You know, it should reek of unconstitutionality, but here in Mississippi, it’s just the same old song,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023
According to public prosecutors, the court has already made decisions that pointed to the alleged unconstitutionality of the legislation.
From Reuters • Jan. 21, 2023
Mr. Jaffe added that the proposals will ultimately “increase its unconstitutionality by singling out taxes based on the content of the speech.”
From Washington Times • Feb. 18, 2021
It was an argument to prove the unconstitutionality in New York of the power assumed by the legislature to grant charters.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel
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