Journal pudge's Journal: Judicial Activism 5
If the Heller case -- the one about the DC gun ban -- goes as expected tomorrow, we will hear cries from the left about "judicial activism."
You may not know what that phrase means, especially in that context, so I'll try to help out.
To a liberal who uses the phrase, a decision they dislike is "judicial activism." To a conservative, any decision which is not justified by the law is "judicial activism."
That means that a conservative can call something judicial activism even if he thinks it is the right thing, but that it was done in the wrong way (e.g., upholding a ban on medical marijuana via "interstate commerce"), while a liberal can call something judicial activism even if it follows the law completely, but they simply believe the law should be something else (e.g., the likely outcome of tomorrow's gun case).
I hope this helps you wade through the discussions tomorrow.
Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.
ROTFL (Score:1)
Yeah, you pegged the meaning of "judicial activism" PERFECTLY!
Like "Bush lied" (Score:1)
Or "culture of corruption". And so many others. Liberals have absolutely no problem with for example lying, corruption, or judicial activism. As we all know they're staples of the Liberal tactics playbook (because winning (power (to control people)) trumps all else). They probably don't even really get what the big deal is over those concepts. All they know is that they've heard the Right use them as if they were negative, and so when they don't like something and they can't really give any good reasons as
Actually, (Score:1)
I think the most interesting Supreme Court case recently was the ruling that the death penalty is only for murder. (I can see their reasoning but I think they're wrong)
More interesting is that Obama, left-winger though he is, came out against the decision and in favor of the death penalty for "heinous" (his word) crimes that are not murder. Wonder how much of his base he'll lose for that--and how many more moderates he might pick up by appearing not as soft-hearted as the far left.
Liberal judicial activism (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Crazy, man. I replied.