Sentence examples for constitutional harm from inspiring English sources

So did recognition of sex discrimination as a constitutional harm.

The ruling was a departure from some other prominent cases involving government demands that journalists disclose their sources, in which judges failed to adequately scrutinize the government's stated rationale or weigh the serious constitutional harm in impeding the gathering of newsworthy information the public needs to hold powerful institutions and individuals accountable.

Currie notes that the various piracy offenses "take an exceedingly broad view of what constituted piracy," but that "[f]rom a constitutional standpoint no harm was done, since all of the acts punished were felonious and Congress's power extended to all felonies on the high seas".

"Patients are suffering medical, constitutional and irreparable harm as a result of being denied the ability to obtain an abortion at all".

In its ruling on Thursday, the court did not directly address accusations that Attorney General Conrado Reyes had links to organized crime but said the ruling was necessary so that "illegal groups" could not "harm the constitutional process" that led to his selection.

They also said that the system suffers from accuracy issues — which could lead to racial bias, and could harm citizens' constitutional rights to free expression.

Regardless of our views about same-sex marriage, we should be able to agree that reasonable disagreement about the meaning of the Constitution is possible and adjudication by speculation harms our constitutional order.

Leon left no doubt that he agreed it was "significantly likely" that the N.S.A. had violated the Constitution, and that the "loss of constitutional freedoms" caused Klayman "irreparable harm".

Morsi backers said that the constitutional court had been harming democracy, not helping it, by issuing dramatic rulings that shut down new institutions as they emerged.

The debt limit statute facially violates the constitutional guarantee; bondholders suffer current harm - both economic and non-economic.

"You have a constitutional right to be protected from harm in custody and that includes protection from harming yourself," said Amin Alehashem, an attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project in Houston.