Damn, if i ever hear the term judicial activist being said about a liberal justice

[Hawaii Hiker]

I will have to leave the room, or i will risk throwing something right thru my big screen TV downstairs....Yesterday's SCOTUS ruling on the Citizens United V. FEC case, where the conservative justices' basically said "F U" to over a 100 years of settled law & gave corporations a frighening new level of power, might have just been the greatest example of judicial activism, EVER...

Once again, this just shows why we need to keep a Democrat in the WH....Supreme Court appointments are for life, & the thought of any Republican making the next appointment(s) should scare you to death...Then there are the appointments to District Courts as well as the Court of Appeals that a president will make as well...

Yesterdays Supreme Court ruling was a judicial 9/11


:banghead:

[Not Me]

1. Yeah, it's amazingly quiet on the right...

Had this been in a social area, they'd be screaming "ACTIVIST JUDGES".

[ixion]

2. which is why the teabaggers have no credibility

imo...

[OHdem10]

3. One of the reasons we have a RW Supreme Court is the reaction

to Liberal Judicial Activism of the Past. Using the
courts to promote Ideolgy. Roe V Wade, etc.

The Hilarious Argument is just that. They use
the Courts for RW Ideology, especially Business
Law. In this regard, one could argue the RW Court
has been even more activist.

[T Wolf]

4. There have NEVER been "liberal" justices, at least as far as a sane definition of liberal goes.

There have been far-reich whackjobs like the gang of five, and some slightly less-than-extreme conservatives.

But a true-blue liberal? Someone who tried to push things as far to the left as the Court goes reich-ward? Never.