Government
Jul. 23, 2008
McCain's Bench Press
The sole remaining political effectiveness of the judicial activism tag is that the candidate can still discretely wink at voter prejudices with plausible deniability.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
Partner, Bastian & Dini
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Whittier Law School
Republican candidate John McCain's position on the judiciary, presented in a May speech in North Carolina should not, in James Boswell's phrase, pass without "due animadversion."
It's the same old snake oil. McCain tars his opponents as favoring "judicial activism" while he seeks - if not quite uttering the actual phrase - "strict constructionists." Discredited, toxic and corrupt, this idea - judicial activists are bad, strict constructionists are ...
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