Fourteenth Amendment's "Substantive" Due Process Clause

The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause states, "[Nor] shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

The substantive component of this Clause "bar[s] certain government actions regardless

of the fairness of the procedures used to implement them...." Daniels v. Williams, U.S. Supreme Court (1986). By doing so, "it serves to prevent governmental power from being `used for purposes of oppression.'"

The Due Process Clause prohibits restraints on liberty that are arbitrary and purposeless, Poe v. Ullman, Supreme Court of the United States (1961), but a claim under this clause is "cognizable only if there is a recognized liberty or property interest at stake." Board of Regents v. Roth, U.S. Supreme Court (1972);

"[T]he Due Process Clause specially protects those fundamental rights and liberties which are, objectively, deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition, and implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, such that neither liberty nor justice would exist if they were sacrificed." Washington v. Glucksberg, U.S. Supreme Court (1997).

Fit parents making child rearing decisions is a fundamental right.

If you move a Court to violate the other parents fundamental rights, you grant the court permission to violate your fundamental rights.

STOP fighting for all the rights the other parent shares with you by the mere fact both of you are parents to your child.