Sentence examples for to determine the constitutionality from inspiring English sources

The judge, Michael McLaughlin, has been asked to determine the constitutionality of a new law banning taxpayer-financed abortions prescribed to protect the health of poor women.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing the majority opinion today, said that "this case does not require us to determine the constitutionality of open primaries".

The Supreme Court also exercises the power of judicial review, enabling it to determine the constitutionality of any law, order, regulation, or official act.

THE much-anticipated trial to determine the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 is scheduled to begin this morning in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

This was the third time in four years that the Appellate Division was asked to determine the constitutionality of the police practice of stopping cars without having specific suspicions about their passengers and drivers.

This was one of three federal trials held to determine the constitutionality of the ban on a procedure called intact dilation and extraction by doctors and partial-birth abortion by anti-abortion groups.

But Crawford said the question carried no weight when it came to determining the constitutionality of the officer's action.

But, in recent decades, the history test applied in cases like Snyder has quietly taken a special place; it has been used to help determine the constitutionality of everything from assisted suicide to deportation, by the unlikely route of judicial decisions about sex.

My bill calls upon the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has the expertise and is leak-proof (unlike either Congress or the White House) to determine the program's constitutionality.

That logic requires consistent judicial engagement--a genuine, impartial effort to determine the truth concerning the constitutionality of the government's actions in every constitutional case.

Judges must in every case engage in a genuine effort to determine the truth concerning the constitutionality of the government's actions, remaining neutral and requiring record evidence to establish that the government is demonstrably seeking to further constitutional ends through constitutional means.