Sentence examples for ruling on the constitutionality from inspiring English sources

The court was not formally ruling on the constitutionality of the mechanism, but on requests to block the German president, Joachim Gauck, from signing the bill into law.

In ruling on the constitutionality of requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance, the Supreme Court faces a central test: will it recognize limits on its own authority to overturn well-founded acts of Congress?

In ruling on the constitutionality of requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance, the Supreme Court faces a central test: whether it will recognize limits on its own authority to overturn well-founded acts of Congress.

In 2009, the Supreme Court ducked ruling on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. that nonetheless laid out arguments for its unconstitutionality.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., bowing to an unusual demand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, made official the backpedaling of the past few days over remarks by President Obama about the Supreme Court's coming ruling on the constitutionality of his health care overhaul.

8 backers secretly hope that all judges are disqualified from ruling on the constitutionality of the ban.

The 151-page opinion by Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, is the first major decision on Section 5 since a narrow 2009 Supreme Court case addressed this issue without ruling on the provision's constitutionality.

The deus ex machina was an invitation by the court to the plaintiff, Northwest Austin sewer district, to "bail out" from Section 5 coverage — even though the statute's plain language made jurisdictions of the sewer district's sort ineligible for the bail-out option — thus removing the basis for ruling on the section's constitutionality.

Without ruling on the suit's merits, the Supreme Court said the group's lawsuit had challenged the formula's constitutionality and could be reviewed.

Part III explores the events leading up to the Supreme Courtâ &euro ™s 1997 rulings on the constitutionality of PAS.

The Supreme Court is the final court of appeal, and it also reviews the decisions of the National Court and issues rulings on the constitutionality of laws.