As the current term of the U.S. Supreme Court gets underway, with two new associate justices, we explore in this inquiry an idea that has recently been used slur of sorts: “judicial activism.” ...
In a wild administrative ruling (in In re Fonberg), the three-judge Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit Executive Committee concludes that an unmarried court employee with a same-sex ...
Bush’s judicial nominees, and they bitterly (and successfully) resisted Republican efforts in 2005 to abolish the filibuster. Reid, for example, voted against cloture at least 25 times on 13 ...