Sentences with phrase «judicial activism over»

The the Heritage experts go on to give five «egregrious» examples of judicial activism over the past decade.

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Will traditional marriage follow the path of preborn life — an issue moving from judicial activism and socially elite proclamations that a generational shift was «inevitable» and «the debate is over» to our day decades later where the youngsters are more right minded about abortion than their parents.

Over at No Left Turns, Peter Lawler reminds us that part of the problem with an unrestrained judicial activism is precisely its championing of the ever expanding rights of the Lockean individual — the essential premise of Texas v. Lawrence is that the word «liberty» as used in the Fourteenth Amendment is an indeterminate concept meant to be expanded indefinitely by the Supreme Court.

She was twice nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, only to see her first nomination filibustered and her second sunk by charges of judicial activism by Senate Republicans over gun industry litigation during her time as solicitor general.

A complex matrix of specific statutory language and judicial interpretations emerged out of the maelstrom of political activism over the issue that started in the late 1970s.

She declined to weigh in on whether corporations have too much control over the Internet, how she defines «judicial activism,» and whether there are any limits on Congress» power to protect voting rights.

But it isn't good politics for her to trumpet a liberal transformation of the court when she's trying to win over the median voter, who may well be skeptical of more judicial activism.

In 1997, Peter Hogg responded to criticisms of judicial activism in the post-Charter era by suggesting that the legislature is instead involved in a flexible and dynamic relationship with the courts over Charter rights.

Election driven law and order campaigns primed to drive up incarceration, a lack of government action to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and lack of judicial activism to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission on non custodial sentences are some obvious and ongoing causes of over representation.