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Liberals find a new love: ‘Judicial restraint’
Washington Examiner ^ | Matthew Sheffield

Posted on 07/08/2010 10:35:43 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com

Faced with a string of Supreme Court ruings in cases dear to liberal hearts regarding campaign censorship and gun control, America’s liberals are taking up a new line of argument regarding the courts by accusing the right of being hypocritical on the subject of “judicial activism.”

It’s a rather convenient argument and certainly comes in reaction to conservative and libertarian groups’ now-successful attempts to use the courts to their advantage as the left has done for decades.

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