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• Barack W. Bush

  …first eight months he talked about rolling back what he saw as 50 years of liberal influence—internationalism abroad, judicial activism at home, a progressive tax code. Obama may have spread himself too thin as well, even if it's on the other side of …

  By Michael Hirsh

  07/31/2009Politics
• Advise and Shut Up Already

  …Wade , in part because of advances in prenatal medicine. Meanwhile, liberals have now embraced the virtues of " judicial restraint " as they decry decisions handed down by the Roberts court. For senators to patiently untangle the jurisprudential …

  By Howard Fineman

  07/18/2009Politics
• How Do Sotomayor's Hearings Compare to the Other Supreme Court Justices?

  …their agenda on him. Infamously conservative Republican Senator Strom Thurmond praised Kennedy as an advocate of judicial restraint , while Senator Kennedy, bastion of the left, said he was pleased that the nominee considered the constitution …

  By Katie Connolly

  07/13/2009Blogs
• Meet The Sotomayors

  One is a Latina firebrand, the other a model of judicial restraint . It's the latter who will appear before the senate judiciary committee. But it's the former, conservative critics fear

  By Brian No,Evan Thomas,Stuart Taylor Jr.

  07/11/2009Politics
• Sotomayor in 60 Seconds

  …grind their teeth in frustration at this marked absence of judicial activism , because it will make it very hard to tell whether she ……gun rights are concerned. Everyone will thus agree that judicial activism is bad except insofar as it's good. Hovering like a …

  By Dahlia Lithwick

  07/11/2009Culture

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