Judicial Activism: Articles

Jun 30 2010

Kagan Wrote the Book on Partial-Birth Abortion

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jun-30-2010
I'm surprised to read this commentary by Wesley J. Smith at First Things.  Smith links to a NRO article by Yuval Levin that relates ...
Jun 14 2010

Judicial Activism and “The Living Constitution”

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog, Featured Post | Jun-14-2010
For several days I've been mulling over this article on Justice Souter by Dahlia Lithwick.  Lithwick commends Souter for calling Americans to "grow up" in ...
May 14 2010

Constitution, Not Court, Is Supreme

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | May-14-2010
"The democratic integrity of the law . . . depends entirely upon the degree to which its processes are legitimate.  A judge who announces ...
Apr 05 2010

The Constitution and the Individual Mandate

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Apr-05-2010
I found Simon Lazarus's Huffington Post piece, "The Trumped-Up Constitutional Case to Trump Health Care Reform" to be a disheartening, depressing read (click here ...
Nov 30 2009

Federal Judges Should Be Conservative By Default

By Chris Peltack | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Nov-30-2009
When Government goes trolling for arbiters of justice at the Federal level, it does so, ostensibly, with the intention of finding judges who are ready ...
Sep 09 2009

Exercise Caution

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Sep-09-2009
By the Washington Post Editorial Staff THERE ARE MANY complicated aspects of the campaign-finance case the Supreme Court is poised to ...
Jul 30 2009

A Choice To Regret

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Jul-30-2009
By the Investor's Business Daily Editorial Staff Justice: The Senate Judiciary Committee has made an error that will likely be repeated ...
Jul 15 2009

Defining Activism Down

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Jul-15-2009
By the Wall Street Journal Editorial Staff After two days of Senate hearings on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, an onlooker could ...
Jul 07 2009

Roberts Court Shifts Right, Tipped by Kennedy

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Jul-07-2009
By Adam Liptak,  New York Times Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. emerged as a canny strategist at the Supreme Court ...
Jul 01 2009

Our Laws, Not Foreign Laws

By CJS Staff | Posted in Word on the Street | Jul-01-2009
By Jeff Sessions,  Washington Times One of the threats facing our judiciary is the view that judges can use the laws ...

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