judicial activism
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That seems odd: Scalia’s entire judicial career, promoting originalism and textualism for constraining judicial activism, stands in opposition to the judicial mindset pioneered in Griswold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
PN Bhagwati, a former chief justice who heard the pollution cases and was instrumental in expanding the court's role into policy-making, once said that "judicial activism" was "inevitable".
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2023
He also questioned her views on judicial activism and other issues.
From Fox News • Feb. 28, 2019
These developments are, in no small part, the result of legislative and judicial activism in the form of the Civil Rights Act and related statutes and case law.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2016
Coons stressed: “We cannot decry judicial activism and create a constitutional crisis every time a big case comes out against us.”
From MSNBC • Jul. 22, 2015
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