The Conservative Embrace Of Judicial Activism

Via Hullabaloo, George Will’s forthright embrace of judicial activism:

Although Hamilton called the judiciary the least dangerous branch because it has neither force nor will, but merely judgment, it is dangerous to liberty when it is unreasonably restrained. One hopes Romney recognizes that judicial deference to elected representatives can be dereliction of judicial duty.

As David Atkins notes, this is not a change in reality, but the open embrace of judicial activism by conservatives is new.

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