How to Use equal protection in a Sentence

equal protection

noun
  • States cannot deny equal protection of the laws.
    — Natashia Deon, Oc Register, 31 May 2026
  • That's a clause that says that people have equal protection of the laws.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • In the guise of equal protection, the court made sure their votes would never matter.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But treating like cases alike is crucial to the equal protection of the laws.
    — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Day wants balance, though, and that means equal protection for his quarterbacks.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The case opened the door for equal protection under the law, but the work continues today.
    — National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2020
  • With mothers like these, the fight for liberty and equal protection is raising a new army.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
  • Such a shift would most likely work against the defendants who most need equal protection under the law.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 6 Nov. 2018
  • All New Yorkers should have equal protection.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The justices could have taken a leap toward equal protection in Roe.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • That principle is the equal protection of the laws for everyone.
    — Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • And while the sunscreen aisle may suggest otherwise, price doesn't equal protection.
    — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • That’s the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • The law also raises an equal protection issue, according to the suit.
    — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 4 May 2022
  • The group argued that the ban denied them their constitutional right to equal protection of the law.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 6 May 2025
  • The facts of Chiles In Chiles, the issue is freedom of speech, not equal protection.
    — Timothy R. Holbrook, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • With equal protection under the law — in our Constitution, in our courts.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nine justices agree with it on Title IX and six justices agree with this on equal protection.
    — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • The troops suing the DoD claim they were fired without cause and were not offered equal protection under the law.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • If not, the different treatment is irrational and violates the right to equal protection of the laws.
    — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
  • 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 justices have agreed to hear only the claim that Tennessee’s law denies trans minors the equal protection of the law.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 24 June 2024
  • 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
  • Non-citizens have many of the same basic rights as citizens, including the right to due process and equal protection under the law.
    — Hannah Dreier, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Apr. 2018
  • But that case turned on the language of a federal civil rights law and not the Constitution’s equal protection clause.
    — Melissa Brown, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024

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