To: Baron OBeef Dip
"If the terms "judicial activism" and "judicial restraint" have any meaning, it is that a court is activist when it is invalidating laws and overruling precedent, and restrained when deferring to popularly elected legislatures and following prior decisions."Excuse me, but doesn't the U.S. Constitution (explained by the Federalist Papers) trump precedent and laws?
10 posted on
06/26/2008 8:52:16 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only the Marxist Obama can!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
when deferring to popularly elected legislatures The Supreme Court only defers to the legislature when they stay within the boundaries of the constitution.
52 posted on
06/26/2008 10:56:43 PM PDT by
oldbrowser
(It's not an energy crisis, it's a worthless politicians crisis.)
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