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It unbelieve able that when a court doesn’t rule in your favor the court is an activist court. The McCain Feingold amendment was flawed and the court legally over ruled it. I am sick and tired of democrats complaining about how the evil right has ruined the supreme court. You know what that is the spoils of victory. If your party wins the election your party gets to pick the supreme court. I find it funny that when ever the ninth circus court makes a ruling you don't see the left wingers complaining. Up unitl recently the Dems only hope was the supreme court because they have had a hard time winning elections. If they current congress keeps up its antics they are going to lose more elections.

More Liberal Whining

Republican presidential candidates promised to appoint judges who applied existing law, not activists who imposed their own views of what the law should be. There are now seven justices (out of nine) appointed by Republican presidents, and the current Supreme Court is among the most activist in history. The most activist decision, not only in the history of the Supreme Court but probably in the history of any court was, of course, Bush v. Gore in which five Republican justices imposed their own views of who should be president on the entire world. In the process, they distorted the law so badly that they had to announce that their decision would not have precedent value. What their decision did assure, however, was an activist Republican Supreme Court for generations.

In the past term alone, the activist majority overruled key provisions of congressionally mandated campaign-finance reform, dictated to cities how to assign students to public schools, reversed the decisions of federal agencies, overturned jury verdicts against large corporations and overruled its own precedents. So much for judicial restraint!

Adam Cohen of The New York Times, after reviewing the current Court’s record of activism, concluded that:

“The other disturbing aspect of the new conservative judicial activism is its dishonesty. The conservative justices claim to support ‘judicial modesty,’ but reviews of the court’s ruling over the last few years show that they have actually voted more often to overturn laws passed by Congress—the ultimate act of judicial activism—than has the liberal bloc.”

So let’s not here any more nonsense about judicial activism from the Right. The real culprit is reactionary judicial activism from the current Republican Court.