Judicial restraint means that judges should interpret and apply the law carefully, without making significant changes or taking a strong stance on political or social issues. It suggests that judges should respect the decisions of elected officials and only overturn laws if they clearly violate the Constitution. In essence, it advocates for judges to exercise caution and avoid becoming too involved in policymaking.
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At the same time, the court must respect the government's freedom to set policies, which is
why judicial restraint is in order.
In 2015, he also wrote the dissenting judgment in R. v. Nur, a 6 - 3 decision in which he argued the court should have
shown judicial restraint and upheld the three - year mandatory minimum sentence for illegal possession of a loaded firearm.
More recently, she helped create the Judicial Crisis Network, a nonprofit that advocates for judicial candidates who
practice judicial restraint.
Invoking
judicial restraint doctrine, he expects other judges to «defer to the legislative branch, which... knows more about the workings of these policies.»
He also listed the constraints facing the completion of the elections in Rivers, Imo, Plateau, and Anambra, to
include judicial restraints and security.
Judicial restraint became a celebrated doctrine when Oliver Wendell Holmes said laws should not be declared unconstitutional without considering them «in the light of our whole experience.»
All notions of
judicial restraint aside, Lithwick's reaction is to paint Scalia's candor as «vastly preferable to the loaded silence of his colleagues.»
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In the absence of textual constraints that are vigorously enforced (and some measure of
judicial restraint in the face of questionable legislation), this phenomenon can only continue in earnest, propelling the interpretation of section 7 across sixty colours, and more, until it bears no likeness to the original text.
Sunstein's third category, Burkeans, favour small, incremental steps towards change, and
therefore judicial restraint (captured in Chief Justice Roberts» phrase «If it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more»).
Constitutional constraints and
judicial restraint often overlap, but they may also diverge, such as where Parliament has passed a law outside its legislative jurisdiction.
Re judicial restraint: You could probably characterize this as the court exercising «the judicial power» to decide individual cases, rather than some plenary (oligarchic) power to review the entirety of US law whenever it feels like it.
And, after all, the Supreme Court may possibly keep faith with the original contract that brought Christians into the republic; seeing what it unleashed with Roe and institutionalized with Casey, it may yet rediscover the principle
of judicial restraint.
If sufficient public feeling against the judges» usurpation is aroused, the Court may offer «timely compliance» to the demand
for judicial restraint, as it did in the 1930s....
«From her days as a Hill staffer to her time at Americans United for Life and her work on behalf of Supreme Court Justices who
practice judicial restraint, Wendy has constantly been engaged in the fight for adherence to the Constitution and the right to Life laid out in the Declaration of Independence,» Dannenfelser said in the statement.
In December, I questioned the common thought that lawyers, scholars and judges who
promote judicial restraint and the rule of law should be called «conservative».
In this case, Justice Blair observed that underlying the proposed class action was an «almost entirely foreign - related factual matrix» and he found that Justice Perell's determination that he should
exercise judicial restraint and decline jurisdiction was both well - founded and entitled to deference.
And he was pretty good on
judicial restraint.
Whether one views constitutional interpretation as grounded in a theory of original meaning or the traditional liberal theory of
judicial restraint and neutral principles, the distinctive nature of this approach is that it is legal in nature.
His career is one that exemplifies the very best of intellectually robust conservatism,
judicial restraint and faithfulness to the Constitution....
The key Obama quote: «I'd just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of
judicial restraint — that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed....
Our good friend CJ Wolfe in the thread notes that we postmodern conservatives were prophetic when we pronounced that it won't be long before liberals become born - again defenders of
judicial restraint.
The twelfth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Harlan Fiske Stone (1872 - 1946), expressed his anxiety: «While unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive or legislative branches of the Government is subject to
judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of restraint.»
Rather than take «
judicial restraint» in the unrealistic sense of an all - powerful and unaccountable judiciary restraining itself, we should take it in the constitutional sense of a judiciary restrained by the other two branches.
If the branches of the federal government are truly coequal, if the President and Congress are not subordinated to the Court by the Constitution (except insofar as the Court might declare them to be), then the theme of «
judicial restraint» that runs wistfully through your symposium is less an appeal for the impossible than a misconstrual of the problem.
«I just remind conservative commentators that for years we have heard the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of
judicial restraint.
Even more than the tragic» truly frightening» decision invalidating laws against partial «birth abortion in Stenberg v. Carhart, the Court's ruling in Hill shows that what is driving liberal jurisprudence is not simply a failure to understand the need for «
judicial restraint» in our scheme of constitutional government.
Also calling for
judicial restraint, they argue that the principles enunciated in Vergara could allow any child to file suit against his teacher.
Instead, he focused on issues such as standing, techniques of statutory interpretation, the meaning of the First Amendment, and the importance of
judicial restraint.
As a result, recent nominees to both the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals all admire Justice John Marshall Harlan II,
judicial restraint, and all agree that Korematsu, Plessy v. Ferguson, Lochner, and Dred Scott are the worst Supreme Court decisions ever handed down.
I am not a fan of prior administrative or
judicial restraint, but is there an after - the - fact sanction available, through a privacy commission or court, to weigh the breach of privacy against some notion of the public interest?
«But with 25 judges suing for libel in 2005 alone — nearly 10 percent of all libel suits filed nationwide — that form of
judicial restraint is fading, raising questions about the role, and the ethics, of judges and whether they have a right to be as litigious as everyone else.»
Since the vast majority of controversial section 7 cases before the Supreme Court deal with the expansion of that section,
judicial restraint and constitutional constraints tend to overlap and can easily be confused or conflated.
At the conclusion of my previous article, I explained that my approach to constitutional adjudication is not necessarily one of
judicial restraint, but rather of constitutional constraints.