Sentence examples similar to overturning law from inspiring English sources

Peppering his remarks with references to the civil rights movement, Mr. Rosenkranz often cited Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision overturning laws against interracial marriage.

"Name one whistleblower from the intelligence community whose disclosures led to real change – overturning laws, ending policies – who didn't face retaliation as a result.

Its guarantees of equality became the levers for overturning laws banning sodomy and requiring the government to recognise same-sex marriages.

During the twenty-three years that Frankfurter served on the Court, from 1939 to 1962, its most significant judicial activism concerned overturning laws that restricted civil liberties and civil rights.

It was only in the Warren Court era, in the fifties and sixties, that liberal judicial activism became a force at the Court, as the Justices began overturning laws that violated the rights of minorities and women.

The court actions around the country have brought a measure of relief to Democrats who are hoping some of those cases will result in the courts' overturning laws that they were unable to stop.

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced a landmark ruling overturning laws in these two states that had previously forbidden the direct interstate shipment of wine to consumers.

The Supreme Court decided that citizens could not perpetuate explicit racism by overturning laws that remedied blatant injustice.

He seemed to say in April that he didn't favor overturning laws that make abortion legal.

Dobson calls gay rights "the fall of Western Civilization itself," adding that the "homosexual activist movement" is bent on "overturning laws prohibiting pedophilia".

The National Assembly can overturn laws passed by the provincial assemblies.The fragmented nature of the alliance itself also impedes radical action.