anyone heard the term 'activist judges' in the last year?

[spanone]

:shrug:

[quinnox]

1. Its strange, conservative judges are supposed to believe in

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.

[lamp_shade]

2. Yes. The term was used often by repub senators to describe Judge Sotomayor.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. We got em and they're not the Liberals on the bench

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.

[cascadiance]

4. Still waiting to hear "activist court clerks" which is what gave us today's mess!

[izzybeans]

5. Not since congress installed the last of them, have we heard more of it.

Roberts and Alito.