Sentence examples for sustained laws from inspiring English sources

But Justice Stevens said the court has sustained laws that did just that in other settings.

In a recent essay, "Why We Need More Judicial Activism," Suzanna Sherry, a law professor at Vanderbilt University, said the Supreme Court had erred more often in sustaining laws than in striking them down.

So long as this Court exercises the power of judicial review of legislation, I cannot agree that the First Amendment permits us to sustain laws suppressing freedom of speech and press on the basis of Congress' or our own notions of mere 'reasonableness.' Such a doctrine waters down the First Amendment so that it amounts to little more than an admonition to Congress.

It is not required curriculum in the United States to learn about the influence caricatures in blackface and other stereotypical portrayals had on sustaining laws that institutionalized the social, academic and economic disenfranchisement of people of color, poor people, women, disabled people and others.

This book offers many glimpses into the ways in which intertwined black and white family histories revealed the monstrousness of slavery-sustaining laws.

The court unanimously but tentatively sustained the law's centerpiece, the one critics have called its "show me your papers" provision, leaving the door open to further challenges.

The court unanimously sustained the law's centerpiece, the one critics have called its "show me your papers" provision, though they left the door open to further challenges.

But Nicole Blumberg, an assistant district attorney, said that an investigation that included interviews with more than 20 people and the examination of forensic evidence showed that the more severe charge could not be sustained by law.

Or have they created a situation such that the only place they want me to function is in jail?" On Jan . 24 after another hearing before three judges, Berenson's parole was sustained; by law, she must remain in Lima until 2015, at which point she must leave the country forever.

Of course, global organizations, such as the United Nations (UN) or the World Bank, help to create and sustain the laws, rules, and norms that govern international politics.

It was this ideal of Sunday as a collective day of rest, more so than as the Lord's day, that sustained U.S. blue laws into the late twentieth century, including in a 1961 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the prescription of Sundays as "a day apart from all others".