"Judicial activism" is just a mantra. All it means is "A decision has been made that I don't like." Boo-Hoo.
Actually, if anyone strikes me as a proponent of "judicial activism", its Scalia. When I read his decisions (especially the ones he write for the minority), I usually get the impression that he has this idiosyncratic opinion of what Constitutional Law is, and that he feels it's his mission to rewrite Constitutional Law according to his vision.
And yet he's the darling of the "anti-judicial activism" conservatives.
Speaking personally, I find few things more awesome than contemplating this vast and majestic process of evolution, the ebb and flow of successive biotas through geological time. Creationists and others who cannot for ideological or religious reasons accept the fact of evolution miss out a great deal, and are left with a claustrophobic little universe in which nothing happens and nothing changes.
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M. Alan Kazlev
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