Due process safeguards citizens by enforcing fair governmental actions. Procedural due process ensures correct application of laws; substantive due process checks law constitutionality. Due process is ...

With the resignation of Justice David Souter, President Obama has his first opportunity to fill a vacancy on the U. S. Supreme Court. Because justices are appointed for life, who he appoints may well ...

A search for the early development of substantive due process will reveal the Court’s landmark ruling in 1905, in Lochner v. New York. In Lochner, the Court declared the existence of the “liberty of ...

The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution states in part, quote, No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. One of the founding principles of the United ...

Scott Mollen discusses “Article 13 LLC v. Office of the NYS Attorney General, Intervenor-Respondent, v. Ponce De Leon Federal ...

In the first months of his administration, President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened due process, a fundamental principle enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. His attacks have spanned from the ...