Tuesday, April 24, 2012

For Obama crowd, judicial activism

Anchorage Daily Planet
By Ilya Shapiro and
Timothy Sandefur

President Obama and his supporters have had a turbulent relationship with Supreme Court. It reached a low point when he said that striking down his massive health care overhaul — which he said "was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress" — would be an act of illicit "judicial activism."

The episode harkens back to a nasty chapter in legal history: the clash between the Court and President Franklin Roosevelt during the 1930s. Fortunately, today's Americans are unlikely to welcome a repeat of that confrontation, and President Obama would be wise not to try impugning the High Court, as Roosevelt did.
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