Toobin on Citizens United and judicial restraint

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I am sorry but this deserves its own post...




"Conservatives used to be associated with the term judicial restraint, not deciding things they didn't have to decide, and liberals used to be known as judicial activists, but here you have a classic example, in Stevens' mind, of conservative judicial activism, of conservatives reaching out to find an issue in a case that wasn't even there to overturn the will of the people in the form of a law passed by Congress and signed by President Bush, to advance conservative values." -Jeffery Toobin

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=124597191