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<p>YAY! You can’t have the last one without the ones before it.</p>
<p>The funny thing is this wouldn’t be an issue if the liberals hadn’t pushed us into the strange new world of the supreme court making the law of the land.</p>
<p>It seems to me that a significant number of people look to the supreme court to define the law when it is actually the just thier job to interpret the law. One right trumps another right but where are the associated responsibilities.</p>
<p>On the topic that it appears that many are dancing around in this discussion, abortion, Sandra Day O’Connor said:</p>
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<p>The court effectively took the law making process out of the hands of the legislature. Yet O’Connor was the one who put her finger on why the legislation handed down by the court was problematic. Let’s hope the president can appoint someone with similar perceptive qualities. Though I fear that may not be possible . . . :-(</p>
<p>What is an activist judge? Are they more likely to be a conservative or liberal…Wow…let’s see what makes an activist judge… Great analysis. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/opinion/06gewirtz.html?th&emc=th[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/opinion/06gewirtz.html?th&emc=th</a></p>
<p>“See the light meant comes to realize that the wholly conservative position is illogical…”</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Can’t see the New York Times story…</p>
<p>wabash i think she meant to say liberal :)</p>
<p>An activist judge is one who is willing to ignore the opinions of a hundred justices who came before him/her who interpreted what they thought the framers intended in favor of his/her own original one, which has sprung out of the head as from the head of Zeus.</p>
<p>Alternatively, an activist judge is one whom with you do not agree.</p>
<p>Activism goes both ways, Mini.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t matter. Doesn’t matter whether I agree with them or not. I actually agree with activist judges sometimes, and sometimes not, because from what I know of the framers, they saw the system of government they were setting up as extremely flexible, welcoming of change, and prepared to transform itself according to the needs of the country. (Another reason why they left God out of the Constitution - most of them thinking that God is unchanging.)</p>
<p>Frankly, when it comes to things like the recognition of corporate entities as legal persons, I wish we had a lot more activist justices.</p>