Quotes & Sayings About Judicial Activism

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism. — Stockwell Day

I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism. — Ronald Reagan

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. — Rush Limbaugh

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. — Thomas Sowell

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned. — Michael Kinsley

If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left. — Thomas Sowell

Judicial activism, by definition, is a term applied to judges who render decisions with which you disagree. — James W. Mercer

If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws the justices don't like based on their personal preferences. It's not judicial activism to strike down laws because they violate the Constitution. — Ann Coulter

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America. — Ernest Istook

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. — Michael Kinsley

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. — Ted Cruz

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. — Michael Kinsley

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point. — Ann Coulter

As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool. — Edwin Meese