Heritage Tracking Judicial Activism
October 2, 2009
One of America’s leading think tanks - the Heritage Foundation - is launching a new website to track egregious cases of judicial activism. Over the last few decades, it’s become common for judges to exceed their authority, inserting themselves into business, regulatory and social issues that are rightly the domain of lawmakers. The trial bar has pushed to put tort-friendly judges on the bench, both through campaign contributions to activist judicial candidates and through “merit” selection schemes that allow them to decide directly who runs the courts. Kudos to Heritage for what promises to be a great resource for all tort reforms and court watchers.
Posted by Dan Pero in the categories: Trial Lawyers
One Response to “Heritage Tracking Judicial Activism”
I look forward the Heritage Foundation’s treatment of the Engler Republicans on the Michigan Supreme Court. The study could be titled, “The Wrongly Decided Years”. That phrase was used scores of times by those Justices to overturn decades, if not generations old, precedent. Ironically, this was done, in their words, in the name of judicial restraint, to undo what they perceived to be the judicial activism of prior courts.
I believe the term judicial activism has come to mean the process by which any judge comes to a decision with which we do not agree.
Best of luck to us today, Dan, starting at Noon.