Sentence examples for of its constitutionality from inspiring English sources

In September 1976, not long after the Irish Republican Army IRAassassinatedthe the British ambassador, Ó Dálaigh referred an Emergency Powers Bill (designed to frustrate the terrorist activities of the IRA) to the Supreme Court for consideration of its constitutionality before signing it into law.

Maduro also had the option of referring the legislation to the Supreme Court for review of its constitutionality.

He says he studied the proposals and the law, read blogs and reached out to Washington lawyers and academics who raised the issue of its constitutionality.

Jeffrey Sutton, a former law clerk to Antonin Scalia, wrote the opinion upholding the law in the Sixth Circuit, and Laurence Silbermann, a widely respected conservative, wrote a powerful endorsement of its constitutionality in the D.C. Circuit.

Of all the justices on the court, Anthony M. Kennedy is probably the one most able to separate his views on the merits of the law as a matter of policy from his analysis of its constitutionality.

Last year, the Supreme Court threw out a challenge to the law — without any review of its constitutionality — because the plaintiffs, a group of Americans who communicate with people overseas, could not prove that they had come under surveillance.

Polls show Americans are sharply divided about the law ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on its constitutionality by the end of June.

The constituent assembly cannot now face a legal challenge that might lead to it being dissolved, and the parliament's upper house, the Shura council, has also been put beyond the scope of a legal challenge to its constitutionality.

WASHINGTON -- Three years after Democrats began crafting health care reform, nearly 18 months after the president signed it into law, and eight months since the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to its constitutionality, proponents of the Affordable Care Act can finally exhale.

As Jeffrey Toobin noted in his Comment in the current issue of the magazine, it is a little bizarre that the law came as close as it did to being overturned, given that, in the light of precedent, its constitutionality always looked sound.

When the new 2008 FISA eavesdropping law was passed, all sorts of legal scholars debated its constitutionality, but it turns out that debate was - like the Constitution itself - completely academic.