Wednesday, July 06, 2005

What is judicial activism, and who are the activists?

The Green Knight brings us this little piece of data.

We found that justices vary widely in their inclination to strike down Congressional laws. Justice Clarence Thomas, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, was the most inclined, voting to invalidate 65.63 percent of those laws; Justice Stephen Breyer, appointed by President Bill Clinton, was the least, voting to invalidate 28.13 percent. The tally for all the justices appears below.

Thomas 65.63 %
Kennedy 64.06 %
Scalia 56.25 %
Rehnquist 46.88 %
O'Connor 46.77 %
Souter 42.19 %
Stevens 39.34 %
Ginsburg 39.06 %
Breyer 28.13 %




About 180 degrees different from how those on the far-right try to portray things.

This work was developed by Paul Gewirtz and Chad Golder of Yale Law School .

1 comment:

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