Originally Posted by matclone  While I agree the appointment power of the President is enormously important, I have to ask: what is a judicial activist? If you were President, how would you know one when when you saw one? Are judicial activists (however you want to define it) limited to one party or another? |
I agree with your previous post in that Republican Presidents have often done a miserable job of appointing judges at the Supreme Court level. How would you know an activist judge? Well, first you'd have to rule out almost anyone from Southern California.
I like the wiki definition: "
a pejorative term for misuse of judicial power for the purpose of obtaining a predetermined judgement based on the political convictions of the judges without regard to the U.S. constitution". Are they limited to one party or another? Good question.