unconstitutional

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• A federal judge in 2014 ruled both the amendment and a previous 1975 statute banning marriage for same-sex couples were unconstitutional, yet both have remained on the books.

• All but a few, however, have been Democrats, as GOP leaders have gone to court to challenge the proxy-voting procedure as unconstitutional.

• A federal appeals court in November ruled bans on conversion therapy for minors in the Florida cities of Boca Raton and Palm Beach are unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

• That’s true for seditious language violations, an unconstitutional law Voice of San Diego uncovered and City Council subsequently wiped from the books.

• “I would not leave in place yet another potentially unconstitutional decree, even for the next few weeks,” Gorsuch wrote.

• Late in 1956, a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, declared segregated buses unconstitutional.

• The legal question is whether this constitutes an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to a private entity.

• This was the twenty-ninth consecutive judicial decision in the past 12 months holding that such are laws unconstitutional.

• Twenty-nine consecutive judicial decisions in the past year have held bans on gay marriage are unconstitutional.

• First, laws that treat people differently from one another without a rational justification are unconstitutional.