NOUN
- an interpretation of the U.S. constitution holding that the spirit of the times and the needs of the nation can legitimately influence judicial decisions (particularly decisions of the Supreme Court)
How To Use judicial activism In A Sentence
- It is for this reason that the one-person-one-vote decision, while appealing in democratic terms, seems to me a form of illegitimate judicial activism.
- And, unfortunately, that's what you call activism, judicial activism. CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2005
- But during the presidential campaign, he also expressed caution about judicial activism. Times, Sunday Times
- She is a judge who has foresworn judicial activism in her confirmation hearings, but who has a long record of it prior to 2009. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
- I'm not against judicial activism but this was judicial despotism. Times, Sunday Times
- Historically, the beginning, developing and perfecting of the IPR laws has a close relation with the Judicial activism.
- Bork begins with the observation, "Judicial activism results from the enlistment of judges on one side of the culture war in every Western nation."
- I myself have argued that “judicial activism” is not an analytically useful concept. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Federalist Society Types” Were Committed to Judicial Enforcement of Federalism Long Before Obamacare
- Holding to newer precedents (your stare decisis argument) is in actuality a compounding of past judicial activism. Exposing the myth of so-called activist judges « A Progressive on the Prairie
- Many decades of judicial activism have altered that noble idea. Times, Sunday Times
