How to Use substantive due process in a Sentence
substantive due process
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Thomas rejects the entire idea of substantive due process.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
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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
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Cornyn, like many critics of substantive due process, cast it as illegitimate by arguing that it was first used in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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No one in legal academia today thinks unenumerated rights are protected by substantive due process, which is an oxymoron anyway.
—WSJ, 8 May 2022
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There is nothing clear and definite about rights excavated or concocted via substantive due process.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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Before taking that hard earned money from taxpayers (i.e., unwilling customers), a manager should review the field agent’s evidence and conclusions to ensure procedural and substantive due process.
—Guinevere Moore, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
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Because any substantive due process decision is 'demonstrably erroneous' ...
—CBS News, 26 June 2022
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Because any substantive due process decision is 'demonstrably erroneous,' ...
—Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2022
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The Court explicitly declined to consider whether segregation is also unconstitutional under substantive due process.
—TheWeek, 14 Oct. 2020
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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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