How to Use substantive due process in a Sentence
substantive due process
noun-
Thomas rejects the entire idea of substantive due process.
— Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
No one in legal academia today thinks unenumerated rights are protected by substantive due process, which is an oxymoron anyway.
— WSJ, 8 May 2022 -
There is nothing clear and definite about rights excavated or concocted via substantive due process.
— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022 -
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 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 -
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 -
Because any substantive due process decision is 'demonstrably erroneous' ...
— CBS News, 26 June 2022 -
Because any substantive due process decision is 'demonstrably erroneous,' ...
— Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2022 -
The Court explicitly declined to consider whether segregation is also unconstitutional under substantive due process.
— TheWeek, 14 Oct. 2020 -
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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