Judicial Activism

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America Doesn't Need More Strict Constructionist Judges

Paul Diamond | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Amendment, Judicial Activism, Supreme Court Justice, Supreme Court, Constructionist, Judiciary, Thomas Jefferson, Mccain, Constitution, Bush, Home News

The Constitution does not exist in a vacuum. People look to the courts to answer how the law applies today to the circumstances they face brought on by social and technological changes.

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Judicial Activism: Playing with the Constitution

Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, James Yee, Judicial Activism, 2nd Amendment, Supreme Court Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Roe vs. Wade, Guantanamo Bay, Constitution, Chemerinsky, War on Terror, Politics News

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.

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Judicial Partisanship Awards

Cass R. Sunstein | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judicial Activism, Judges, Politics News

Who are the real activists on the U.S. Supreme Court? Do Republican appointees differ from Democratic appointees? How much? Are federal judges political?

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Triumph of Politics Over Law (Part II)

Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.30.2008 | 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.

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Fear-Mongering, Activism, and the Guantanamo Cases

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judicial Activism, Antonin Scalia, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Constitution, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

By Doug Kendall and Elizabeth Wydra Conservatives love to decry result-oriented judging--except when they don't like the results compelled by the law...

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Conservatives Crying Wolf

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Judicial Activism, Conservatives, California Supreme Court, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

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.

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