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Judicial Activism

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Judicial Activism Defined

When judges aggressively apply their judicial review power to strike down laws, as a means of making policy conform to their own preferences.

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Kanika Datta: A clash of development

Published January 8, 2009, 12:39 am, Business Standard India

If business and politics have one thing in common, it is the penchant for turning obstructive when any kind of socially beneficial measure seems to contradict their interests.

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Top Scoops

Published January 7, 2009, 8:18 pm, Scoop.co.nz

Every time Israel doesn't something mean, cruel or stupid you can almost hear the sound of liberals and progressives rushing for a place to hide. Strip away the rhetoric and the excuses and the problem basically comes down to the fact that people don't ...

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Nigeria: Judiciary, the Law And the Court of Public Opinion

Published January 5, 2009, 3:18 pm, AllAfrica.com

It is worth waiting a little while for the dust thrown up by the verdict on the 2007 Presidential Election to begin to settle down; at least so that away from passion and politics one can take the public on an academic journey into why judges reason the way they do.

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Africa: Ghanaian Elite Unlike Their Nigerian Counterparts - Ezeazu

Published January 2, 2009, 3:31 am, AllAfrica.com

EMMA EZEAZU is the General Secretary of the Alliance for Credible Election (ACE-Nigeria) and, when student activism was at its best, a former president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). In this interview with Senior Reporter, RAFIU AJAKAYE, Ezeazu speaks on the recent judgment of the Supreme Court which upheld the election of President Umaru Yar'Adua, lessons to draw from ...

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  • Judicial Partisanship Awards: We investigated which members of the Supreme Court are the most partisan -- in that they are more likely to vote in favor of conservative agency decisions than liberal ones. We wanted to see if some justices are more political in their voting patterns than others ? and also learn something about how future administration s are likely to fare in the Supreme Court.

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  • How strict constructionis m can be judicial activism: This is the crux of the implicit argument in the term `activist judge'. If we start with the false premise that a judge who is liberal on one axis is also liberal on all four other axes, then we get the false conclusion that all socially liberal judges ar

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  • Indian Judiciary and Politics: the attempt by the judiciary to address the incompetencies of the legislative and executive and the reaction by the executive and the legislative bracnhes of the Indian state.

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  • Senator Chuck Gray on Judges: Judges make rulings that affect our lives in so many ways. They hold society accountable for our actions yet it seems that they are accountable to no one for their actions.

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