Sandefur on Judicial Activism and Dover

Sandefur has an excellent post up about the Dover ruling and the hollowness of the charge that the judge was engaging in "judicial activism" in his ruling.

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The Alliance Defense Fund now has a blog called Constitutionally Correct. A couple of recent posts on that blog serve to demonstrate how completely meaningless the phrase "judicial activism" is when it's used by social conservatives. In this post, they take the New York Times to task over this op-…
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