Judicial activism, properly understood, is the use of court power to invalidate legislative or executive acts, or to establish legal rules without legislative or executive initiation. In today’s ...

Last week, the Supreme Court scuttled the Biden administration’s attempt to forgive more than $400 billion in student loan debt. As a matter of policy, broad-based student debt cancellation remains a ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday said Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a history of "judicial activism" he fears she'll bring to the Supreme Court – but that he won't seek to undermine ...

As we mourn the passing of former Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her judicial philosophy and that of her potential successor, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, once again gain national attention.

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” — Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court “No judge wants to make law.” — Elena Kagan, Associate Justice, U ...

1998—In an oral-history interview, liberal California supreme court justice Stanley Mosk explains that one big difference between him and former California supreme court justice Rose Bird, whom voters ...

When it comes to Republican Party rhetoric, much of it is so reflexive and reactionary, debates no longer require any thought at all. Those who mention the gap between the rich and poor are guilty of ...

TALLAHASSEE — Reversing the state’s retroactive consideration of certain death-penalty cases would amount to “the most egregious judicial activism in the history of Florida,” a lawyer for a Death Row ...

The term "judicial activist" has been used and abused by politicians of both parties for years. On Wednesday, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was labeled "exhibit A for judicial ...

O’Donnell and Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals Judge and former Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, were also questioned at the forum about why they declined to sign a clean ...

Experts attending the Moneyval plenary assembly in Strasbourg, France, this week approved a highly anticipated report on the Holy See. Moneyval, the committee of the Council of Europe which assesses ...

Chief Justice of India BR Gavai on Monday said that judicial activism should not turn into "judicial adventurism or judicial terrorism". The CJI said judicial activism is bound to remain in the ...