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Comment by Ajedi32

1 year ago

No. Particularly when one of the primary goals of that activism is to produce judges who aren't activists:

> [The Federalist Society] is founded on the principles that [...] it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.

https://fedsoc.org/about-us

“What the law is, not what it should be” is code for a particular viewpoint on how to rule itself, which is activism.

  • If everything is "activism" then nothing is "activism".

    • Judges are “activist” as a political label only when they rule in a way that you don’t like. It is a meaningless label generated by politicians to get them to vote for them and put in different judges who will vote the way they think you want! And that’s not activism?

  • You and I clearly have different ideas of what constitutes judicial activism. What would you consider to be "non-activist" then, if ruling based on what the law says rather than on your personal politics is itself activist?

    • Laws are not boolean logic that are cut and dry, otherwise we wouldn’t need human judges.

      The federalist society is a well funded organization whose goal and track record is to install conservative judges to interpret the law in a very specific way, all the way up to the Supreme Court. I’d that’s not activism then I don’t know what is.

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