spanone
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Thu Jan-21-10 02:37 PM
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anyone heard the term 'activist judges' in the last year? |
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Thu Jan-21-10 02:40 PM
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1. Its strange, conservative judges are supposed to believe in |
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precedent, and respect for prior decisions. Yet the conservatives on the Supreme Court took a (super) activist role in overturning their prior decisions that had stood for 100 years.
I guess an activist judge only applies to Democrats, when conservatives do it it is called something else.
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Thu Jan-21-10 03:18 PM
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2. Yes. The term was used often by repub senators to describe Judge Sotomayor. |
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Thu Jan-21-10 03:21 PM
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3. We got em and they're not the Liberals on the bench |
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This is the epitome of judicial activism. Look for a case that could be decider on a much smaller scope. Broaden it out as far as possible. Ignore decades of settled law. = Judicial activism as practiced by Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy.
What Kennedy is doing in there on this, I have no idea.
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Thu Jan-21-10 03:59 PM
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4. Still waiting to hear "activist court clerks" which is what gave us today's mess! |
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Thu Jan-21-10 04:03 PM
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5. Not since congress installed the last of them, have we heard more of it. |
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