Tag: Bush v. Gore
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Judicial Activism: Real and Imaginary
JUDICIAL OVERREACH ACCEPTABLE…UNDER CERTAIN “CONDITIONS” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2012 (Jul. 13, 2012) — It is always interesting, and instructive, to hear how liberals view the term “judicial activism.” A June 26 New York Times op-ed by conservative Ross Douthat framed the issue. Douthat writes, “It’s a great pleasure, in this week when the entire political…
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The Power to Destroy
JOHN ROBERTS’ MASQUERADE by Joseph DeMaio, ©2012 (Jun. 30, 2012) — “The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” — M’Culloch v. State of Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 431 (1819) (Chief Justice John Marshall). There are a couple of ways to view and analyze what happened on June 28, 2012, when a badly fractured Supreme Court…
