Are Conservative Judges Hypocritical When They Overturn Liberal Activism?
That’s the point argued by UC Irvine law school dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday restoring political free speech. He says: But if judicial activism has any...
View ArticleJudging Philosophies
Reason Magazine’s Damon Root pens a spirited argument for ridding judicial nomination hearings of their pretended denials of litmus tests. It’s time for both sides to come clean about the importance of...
View ArticleRahm Emanuel’s Mayoral Race & the Rule of Law
Three cheers for textualism rang out when an Illinois state appellate court ruled former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel ineligible to run for mayor of Chicago. CFIF previously...
View ArticleJudicial Activist Blocks Wisconsin’s Union Law
If at first liberals don’t succeed, they plead their case to a friendly judge. Last Friday, a Wisconsin judge granted a temporary restraining order to block publication of the state’s recently passed...
View ArticleToday’s WSJ: Rivkin and Casey On How Upholding ObamaCare Would Mean “Judicial...
Last month, we explained why overturning ObamaCare’s individual mandate would not amount to “judicial activism” as liberals hypocritically contend. Quoting Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Number...
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