How to Use equal protection in a Sentence

equal protection

noun
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  • The challengers say the law unfairly targets women in violation of equal protection laws.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2021
  • Every class of humanity deserves equal protection of the law—regardless of skin color, age, size or stage of development.
    — Ryan T. Anderson, WSJ, 1 July 2021
  • In recent decades, the court has repeatedly ruled that the constitutional mandate of equal protection requires women and men to be treated the same.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2021
  • Southwick said the students’ constitutional rights to equal protection and due process should take precedence over the schools’ First Amendment rights.
    — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 3 June 2021
  • People usually use the term to focus on guarantees of equal protection or individual freedom.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 31 May 2021
  • How shallow a promise of equal protection that would not protect Grimm from the fantastical fears and unfounded prejudices of his adult community.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 28 June 2021
  • The 14th Amendment: declared that former slaves were citizens and required that states provide everyone equal protection under the law.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 June 2021
  • But treating like cases alike is crucial to the equal protection of the laws.
    — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
  • And the Constitution says that no state can deprive any person of the equal protection of the laws.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And all of these cases could tell us a lot about how the court is interpreting the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Kepley is white, and the 14th Amendment deals with equal protection under the law and due process.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The court reversed a lower court finding and said that the law does not violate the equal protections clause.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • West Flagler may decide to sue again over the issue of equal protection rather than the issue of where the betting takes place.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2024
  • The Justice Department said the laws in both states violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
    — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The justices could have taken a leap toward equal protection in Roe.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • With mothers like these, the fight for liberty and equal protection is raising a new army.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
  • And all of them refer to rights such as equal protection, speech, and assembly, any of which could have an effect on election law.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In 2017, the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which affirmed the lower court’s ruling that the districts violated the plaintiffs’ equal protection rights.
    — Joey Flechas, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In the contexts of race and gender, Justice O’Connor’s impact on the court’s equal protection jurisprudence was deep.
    — Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And so that clearly violates the equal protection clause.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Day wants balance, though, and that means equal protection for his quarterbacks.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The fight over what equal protection truly means has split the country since the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The lawsuit argues that the law is invalid under the due process and equal protection clauses of the state constitution.
    — David Eggert, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The Ute Tribe later expanded the suit and added Utah as a defendant, accusing the state of denying the tribe due process and equal protection under the law.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The department is arguing that the law violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and Title IX.
    — NBC News, 3 Aug. 2021
  • And several federal courts have held that after-the-fact changes raise questions of due process and equal protection.
    — Ian MacDougall, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The second suit, which focused more narrowly on the book bans, argues the law violates the first and 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.
    — CBS News, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The law also raises an equal protection issue, according to the suit.
    — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 4 May 2022
  • The specific question before the Supreme Court is whether a gender-affirming care ban in Tennessee violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection and due process clauses.
    — Orion Rummler, Them, 24 June 2024
  • Evanston, which has already issued payments to at least 129 Black residents, faces a lawsuit from a conservative activist group that argues that the program violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
    — Isabel Yip, NBC News, 26 June 2024

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