How to Use substantive due process in a Sentence

substantive due process

noun
  • Thomas said other rights that fall under substantive due process could be overturned by the court in the future.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • There is nothing clear and definite about rights excavated or concocted via substantive due process.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022
  • No one in legal academia today thinks unenumerated rights are protected by substantive due process, which is an oxymoron anyway.
    — WSJ, 8 May 2022
  • All three rely on substantive due process, the idea that the Constitution protects certain rights its text doesn’t explicitly mention.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2022
  • And this is called, uh, substantive due process as the basis for the Dred Scott decision and Plessy versus Ferguson.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2022
  • While in custody, a pretrial detainee such as Epstein has a 14th Amendment substantive due process right to care, which includes protection from suicide.
    — Danny Cevallos, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2019
  • In 2003, the Bush administration argued that substantive due process does not apply to immigrants who reside in the country illegally.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The Court explicitly declined to consider whether segregation is also unconstitutional under substantive due process.
    — TheWeek, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The Executive Order threatens the education of thousands of children in the largest public-school system in the country and violates the substantive due process and equal protection rights afforded to all public-school employees.
    — Jon Brown, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2021
  • After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 24 June 2022

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