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Five Justices in the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade ruled that substantive due process is not grounded in the Constitution and that the Court should remain neutral when the Constitution does not provide a right.
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EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
What Clarence Thomas Has Said on Obergefell Thomas, the court's most conservative judge, wrote in a dissenting opinion in Obergefell that the majority opinion stretched the doctrine of substantive due process rights found in the Fourteenth Amendment too far.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Day’s letter also cites a number of precedents of judicial review addressing substantive due process challenges to conditional use denials.
—Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2023
The stories that follow illustrate the impact on people, families and communities of the major unwritten rights that the Supreme Court has, over the past century, recognized under substantive due process.
—Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
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EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
What Clarence Thomas Has Said on Obergefell Thomas, the court's most conservative judge, wrote in a dissenting opinion in Obergefell that the majority opinion stretched the doctrine of substantive due process rights found in the Fourteenth Amendment too far.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Day’s letter also cites a number of precedents of judicial review addressing substantive due process challenges to conditional use denials.
—Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2023
The stories that follow illustrate the impact on people, families and communities of the major unwritten rights that the Supreme Court has, over the past century, recognized under substantive due process.
—Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
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“Substantive due process.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/substantive%20due%20process. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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