Sentence examples for affirm the constitutionality from inspiring English sources

Barbara Arnwine, president of the Lawyers Committeee for Civil Rights Under Law, was disappointed that "the Supreme Court did not affirm the constitutionality of the University of Texas affirmative action plan," she said in a statement.

Justice Scalia went out of his way to affirm the constitutionality of the pre-1984 federal system, which allowed judges to give sentences within wide statutory limits.

Sutton is the first Republican appointee on the federal bench to affirm the constitutionality of the so-called individual mandate.

If the Supreme Court is faithful to the text and history of the Fifteenth Amendment, it should resoundingly affirm the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.

Indeed, what better way to show the Court's impartiality than to affirm the constitutionality of legislation that may be unpopular but is within the authority of the other two branches to enact?

"A federal judge has already affirmed the constitutionality of this law," Nina Smith wrote in an email.

The court's opinion in the Heller case affirmed the constitutionality of reasonable restrictions on the second amendment.

When a specific challenge did reach the court in Stuart v. Laird (1803), the court, in an opinion by Justice William Paterson, affirmed the constitutionality of the repeal.

Fifteen years before, the Supreme Court, by a six-to-three majority, had affirmed the constitutionality of the same set of loyalty tests in New York State.

He also sided with the majority in the notorious 1944 Korematsu opinion affirming the constitutionality of the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans.

And a spokesman for Gov. Scott Walker, who faces a recall election in June, said that the judge's finding "affirmed the constitutionality of nearly everything" in the law.