Monday, April 04, 2005

Hey, Look, Judicial Activism!

One wonders if the lunatics calling the judges involved in the Schiavo fracas "activists" are aware of the Supreme Court's decision today in United States v. Johnson, 'cause that's what activism really looks like. In Johnson, the Court not only decided the question squarely presented to it in the petition for certiorari, but went beyond that to resolve an issue that really wasn't necessary to the holding, as the four dissenters point out.

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