History Will Judge
You have to wonder whether the Justices are in the service of powers determined to remake America to their advantage, or if they respect themselves and want to make good law.
You have to wonder whether the Justices are in the service of powers determined to remake America to their advantage, or if they respect themselves and want to make good law.
Doug Kendall | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
While colleagues on both sides of the aisle were debating old stories about the Supreme Court of the 1960s and 1970s, Franken focused like a laser-beam on the activism of the Roberts Court.
The Minnesota Independent | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Al Franken spewed fire and Amy Klobuchar threw brimstone this morning at the Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the ...
Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
It is no coincidence that American conservatives now sound like French revolutionaries when they talk about legal issues.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
What is the role or expectation of a justice on the Supreme Court? An adherent of precedent? A policy maker? And just how did judicial activism garner such a tarnished reputation?
Monica Youn | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
In all the hullabaloo about so-called "judicial activism," wouldn't it be refreshing to hear some questions about "judicial passivism" as well?
Gershon Hepner | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Randy Barnett thinks the Senate hearings on the confirmation to the Supreme Court of Judge Sonia Sotomayor will, like the "Seinfeld" show, be about nothing.
Jessica Loudis | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Perhaps the right questions aren't whether or not Sotomayor is an activist or if she's biased in favor of minorities, but rather, what kind of perspective she'll be bringing to the court.
Gershon Hepner | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
Lifelong tenure of Supreme Court justices fights the progress of all history with laws, and yet we should not argue how unjust it is, because delay...
Peter M. Shane | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
America's legal progressives are wondering how to re-engage the American public more generally in a serious discussion about the role of federal judge...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
On Monday, Fox News Reporter Steve Brown was asked to analyze just where the Minnesota Senate recount stood as both sides brought their cases before t...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...
Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
The false national consensus that national security should trump constitutional protections for liberty and privacy exemplifies such collusion today.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
What's odd about the body of opposition to Sonia Sotomayor is that it includes so many items that seem to have been previously deemed acceptable for S...
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
We should view the California court not as opposing gay marriage, but rather as promoting public deliberation and democratic action on the subject of equal rights.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
The single most important element of the Prop 8 supporter's argument is that the amendment represents the will of the majority of the California population.
Wajahat Ali | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
People care deeply whether women have the right to choose. For those who favor abortion rights, the central aspect is of a woman's reproductive freedom, and therefore her liberty.
Cass R. Sunstein | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
Who are the real activists on the U.S. Supreme Court? Do Republican appointees differ from Democratic appointees? How much? Are federal judges political?
Shahid Buttar | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Despite the changing winds of politics, the expansion of the voting franchise has been one of our most consistent trends since the birth of the Republic.
Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Do conservatives disagree that California law recognizes a right to same-sex marriage? They've been so hasty to brand the ruling as "judicial activism" that they failed to argue that it was wrong.
Andrew Reinbach | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics