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
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
Talk of judicial activism tends to focus on results, but the Guggenheim case shows that maybe we should talk a little bit more about method.
From Slate • May 28, 2010
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