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Is the current US Supreme Court an activist court?

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WASHINGTON — JUSTICES Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are ideological antagonists on the Supreme Court, but they agree on one thing. Their court is guilty of judicial activism. read more

In 1978, he was named an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire as an Associate Justice in 1983. He became a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on May 25, 1990. read more

The current Supreme Court tries very hard not to be "activist" for either the left or the right. The criticism that the courts were effectively legislating has been taken very seriously, and the court has avoided most "activism" for the past 20 years. read more

The court led by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist from 1986 to 2005 was also more activist than the current one, at 6.4 percent. Lee Epstein, who teaches law and political science at the University of Southern California, cautioned that it was dangerous to draw definitive conclusions from a fairly small number of decisions from the Roberts court. read more

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