How to Use above the law in a Sentence

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  • In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.
    — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 1 July 2024
  • However, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his opinion that presidents are not fully above the law.
    — Maya Homan, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • No one — no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States.
    — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
  • No one, not even a president, is above the law, Democrats railed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In such a realm, the tenet that no one is above the law is a mere platitude, if not an inanity.
    — Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Texas Democrats said no one is above the law, even a former president, and pushed for calm.
    — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • What Jordan is saying with this hearing is that Trump is above the law.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2023
  • No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence.
    — Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That, too, seemed like a no-brainer at the time, and the court duly held that Clinton could not be treated as above the law.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The result made visually real what had become a cliché in the case: No one was above the law.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • In my administration, no one, in my view, no one is above the law.
    — Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In America, no man is above the law — including Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 golfer in the world.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 June 2024
  • On Thursday, the jury has concluded that nobody is above the law.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • At the center of the legal problems now engulfing Donald Trump and Hunter Biden is the refrain that no one is above the law.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Chris Christie, who is hinging his whole campaign on being the anti-Trump, also said that no one is above the law.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
  • The days of Disney controlling its own government and being placed above the law are long gone.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The justices must meet this moment and determine if a president is above the law.
    — Claire B. Wofford, The Conversation, 24 June 2024
  • The system was designed to ensure no person or entity would be above the law.
    — Michael Jainchill, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Former President Donald Trump is still not above the law.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Democrats, meanwhile, largely released cautious statements that said while no one is above the law, Trump will have his day in court.
    — Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • And to essentially ask, is Hollywood still above the law?
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Otherwise, that president becomes above the law and the founders would have never subscribed to that idea.
    — ABC News, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Roberts in his majority opinion said the dissenters had gone too far in saying the president is above the law.
    — Patrick Marley, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • But his days as a larger-than-life billionaire operating above the law may now be drawing to a close.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The Magna Carta is a 13th century English treaty which established that nobody was above the law.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 10 May 2024
  • Grijalva said after Trump's conviction that his guilty verdict shows that no one is above the law.
    — Sabine Martin, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2024
  • Finkelstein said the government will stress their obstruction case is based on the fundamental idea that no one is above the law.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 12 June 2023
  • There was broad celebration that the political system worked—that no one was above the law.
    — Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In this country, juries (not judges) convict criminals, and no one in America is above the law.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
  • Sign up Naturally, in America, reporters are not above the law.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023

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