Activist judges have been circumventing the proper checks and balances, writing public policy that hasn't been approved by the legislature. Recently it has been by allowing gay marriages, just because laws protecting the sanctity of marriage are "unconstitutional".
But the problem with activist judges is a lot older than the gay marriage issue. For example, a judge in Worcester, Mass heard a case between a slave and his master in 1783. He ruled that slavery was not legally sanctioned in the state of Massachusetts, so all slaves in the state were free. So just because there wasn't technically any law authorizing the sale of humans into permanent servitude, this lone, activist judge cheated hundreds of law-abiding citizens out of their property! Instead of letting the voters decide, through their duly elected representatives in Congress - which they did a mere 80 years later.
What else will these activist judges decide is "unconstitutional"?
2007-02-11
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