judicial activism
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So when India's Supreme Court declared in June that the right to walk safely on designated footpaths was a fundamental right, external, it felt less like judicial activism than common sense arriving decades late.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
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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