Judicial Engagement in the News
- Judicial Engagement is Not Judicial Activism
Clark Neily, AFF Doublethink, April 23, 2012: The case for tarring as “activists” justices...
... more- Does the Constitution Protect Unenumerated Rights?
Paul Sherman, National Review Online, April 18, 2012: In response to my recent post..
... more- Judge's Harsh Words for High Court
Paul Sherman, National Review Online, April 18, 2012: This past Friday...
... more- Activism, Deference, and Judicial Engagement
Clark Neily, Volok Conspiracy, April 6, 2012: Last fall I wrote a series of posts...
... more- 'Judicial Activism' a Convenient Bogeyman
Lisa Knepper, CNN.com, April 6, 2012: The bogeyman of judicial activism is back in the news..
... more- How it Became so Hard to Build a Tree House
Anthony Sanders, Daily Caller, April 3, 2012: The U.S. Supreme Court recently...
... more- America Needs Judicial Engagement, Not Abdication
Jeff Rowes, Washington Examiner, March 25, 2012: In a recent New York Times opinion piece...
... more- Justices Must Put Constitutional Principle Before Political Expediency
Michael Bindas, News Tribune, March 25, 2012: This week, the U.S Supreme Court...
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- Health Care Law Shows Why We Need Courts to Guard Against Government Overreach
Katelynn McBride, Minnesota Public Radio, March 23, 2012: Health care reform's sordid journey...
... more- Litigating for Liberty
Wall Street Journal January 7, 2012
... more- The Future of Judicial Engagement
Clark Neily Volokh Conspiracy October 14, 2011
... more- The Alternatives to Judicial Engagement Are Unsatisfactory
Clark Neily Volokh Conspiracy Oct. 13, 2011 As discussed in my first two posts...
... more- Judicial Abdication Is a Bigger Problem Than Judicial Activism
Clark Neily Volokh Conspiracy Oct. 12, 2011 As I noted yesterday...
... more- Why the Call for “Judicial Engagement”?
Clark Neily Volokh Conspiracy Oct. 11, 2011 The Institute for Justice coined..
... more- When a Law is Unconstitutional, Judicial Restraint is No Virtue
Katelynn McBride Minnesota Public Radio August 18, 2011 The Constitution creates a system....
... more- Whatever You Think of Obamacare, You Should Applaud Friday’s Ruling
Robert McNamara August 15, 2011 National Review Last Friday, August 12...
... more- Thin Black Line Essential for Limited Government
Matt Miller August 12, 2011 Big Government As the debt-ceiling debacle shows...
... more- Supreme Court Tea Leaves for ObamaCare?
Elizabeth Price Foley August 12, 2011 Big Government Imagine America faces....
... more- The Supreme Court Shows Its Independence
Larry Salzman August 11, 2011 Daily Caller No one needs to look far...
... more- American Judges Must Bench Their Rule-Of-Law Sapping Empathy
Chip Mellor August 4, 2011 Forbes.com Whenever a president nominates...
... more- Paying Tribute To Our Nation's Constitutional Heroes
Chip Mellor July 12, 2011 Forbes.com At a time when the need...
... more- A Child's Right to Sell Lemonade
Jason Orr July 1, 2011 Washington Post A group of Maryland children recently...
... more- Protecting the Freedom to Speak (And To Annoy Politicians)
Paul Avelar June 29, 2011 Arizona Capitol Times The U.S. and Arizona Constitutions...
... more- How Penn Central Derailed Property Rights
Chip Mellor June 27, 2011 Forbes.com Federal regulations of unprecedented...
... more- The Two-Faced Commerce Clause
Jeff Rowes June 24, 2011 Washington Times The Obamacare lawsuits working...
... more- ObamaCare Has No Place in a Limited Government
Dan Alban June 12, 2011 Big Government A century ago, the idea that the Constitution imposes...
... more- The Obamacare Case Proves that It’s Time for Judicial Engagement
Edwin Meese III and Clark Neily July 12, 2011 National Review The recent ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals..
... more- Civil Forfeiture Laws And The Continued Assault On Private Property
Chip Mellor June 8, 2011 Forbes.com Civil forfeiture laws represent one..
... more- Judicial Engagement
Chip Mellor June 4, 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer In their quest to end so-called judicial activism..
... more- Engaged Judges Needed to Protect Vital Freedoms
Jeff Rowes May 19, 2011 Huffington Post To those locked in the power struggles between right..
... more- An Intelligible Principle To Restrain Unelected Government Officials
Chip Mellor May 16, 2011 Forbes.com By now it is no secret that the massive new laws regulating
... more- Buzzing By The Constitution
Chip Mellor April 19, 2011 Forbes.com During a recent argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Elena Kagan sought to minimize the importance of an attorney's statement with which she disagreed by saying "some people may use certain buzz words and other people don't use those buzz words
... more- Government Too Big? Blame Judges Who Won’t Judge
Steve Simpson April 18, 2011 Townhall.com The astonishing size and scope of our federal government is no longer news to anyone who has been paying attention to the ongoing budget battles in Washington, D.C
... more- Engaged Judges Would End Government Abuses
Jason Orr April 4, 2011 Daily Caller The framers of our Constitution understood that men aren’t angels, so they created a document that was designed to limit the powers of government officials
... more- The Time For Judicial Engagement
Chip Mellor and Clark Neily March 22, 2011 Forbes.com Constitutional cases are often difficult and frequently defy bright lines or simple rules
... more- Judicial Excuses
Anthony Sanders March 17, 2011 National Review Is it “judicial activism” to forbid the government from censoring a movie? This is not a trick question.
... more- Gene Weingarten Revives America's Civic Religion
Bob McNamara March 13, 2011 The Huffington Post Without even seeming to try, Gene Weingarten's cover of the Bill of Rights rings closer to the tune of the original than anything you'd be able to glean from most of our nation's constitutional scholarship or political commentary.
... more- Judicial Abdication, Not Activism, is the Real Problem in the Courts
Jason Adkins February 24, 2011 Townhall.com “Judicial activism” is a term on the lips of people across the political spectrum.
... more- Judges Need to Be More Assertive in Defending Our Freedom
Jason Orr February 24, 2011 The Daily Caller What is it that judges should do? “Judge” sounds like an obvious answer, but prominent jurists on both the left and right would disagree
... more- Texas Regulators Unnecessarily Impede Right to Earn a Living
Wesley Hottot February 14, 2011 Fort Worth Star-Telegram What would you do if a government official visited you at work and, finding you had no license for your job, fined you five thousand dollars?
... more- Cancer Patients vs. the Attorney General
Bob McNamara February 14, 2011 Huffington Post I don't meet a lot of kids in my line of work.
... more- Deferring to the Constitution
Anthony Sanders February 11, 2011 Townhall.com Why does the Constitution place restrictions on Congress?
... more- Health-Care Reform and the Courts
Paul Sherman February 9, 2011 Washington Post The Constitution was designed to prevent the kind of runaway government we have today.
... more- Health Care Mandates and the Emptiness of "Judicial Activism"
Bob McNamara February 1, 2011 Huffington Post Federal District Judge Roger Vinson Monday issued an opinion striking down, in its entirety, the Obama administration's health care reform act.
... more- The Case for Engaged Justices
George Will December 5, 2010 Washington Post Debates about judicial review concern the propriety and scope of judicial supervision of....
... more- The Outrage is Judicial Abdication, not Activism
Anthony Sanders August 31, 2010 MakeNoLaw.org In a recent speech Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio unwittingly illustrated the folly of attacks on “judicial activism” by the left and the right.
... more- The Supreme Court's Gun Showdown
Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2010 There is a remarkable academic consensus...
... more- When Judges Judge, It Is Not Activism
Jeff Rowes and Clark Neily December 17, 2009 The Corner at NRO.com There has been spirited debate in the Corner between Anthony Dick and Ramesh Ponnuru over a federal lawsuit that the Institute for Justice (IJ) recently filed challenging....
... more- IJ’s Bone Marrow Case: Judical Engagement, Not Activism
Jeff Rowes November 5, 2009 Volokh Conspiracy Today I’d like to discuss how to apply principled judicial engagement to the bone marrow case..
... more- Judicial 'Activism' Isn't the Issue
Jeff Rowes June 6, 2009 Wall Street Journal Liberals and conservatives both show too much deference to Congress....
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- Judicial Engagement is Not Judicial Activism
Clark Neily, AFF Doublethink, April 23, 2012: The case for tarring as “activists” justices...
... more- Does the Constitution Protect Unenumerated Rights?
Paul Sherman, National Review Online, April 18, 2012: In response to my recent post..
... more- Judge's Harsh Words for High Court
Paul Sherman, National Review Online, April 18, 2012: This past Friday...
... more- Activism, Deference, and Judicial Engagement
Clark Neily, Volok Conspiracy, April 6, 2012: Last fall I wrote a series of posts...
... more- 'Judicial Activism' a Convenient Bogeyman
Lisa Knepper, CNN.com, April 6, 2012: The bogeyman of judicial activism is back in the news..
... more- How it Became so Hard to Build a Tree House
Anthony Sanders, Daily Caller, April 3, 2012: The U.S. Supreme Court recently...
... more- America Needs Judicial Engagement, Not Abdication
Jeff Rowes, Washington Examiner, March 25, 2012: In a recent New York Times opinion piece...
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