Progressives, Judicidial activism and backlash
Ignatz has some thoughts on it:
But this also makes me think about the ongoing conversation between Kevin Drum and Nathan Newman about Nathan’s belief that progressive causes suffer electoral backlash when progressive judges do progressive things (and that therefore we shouldn’t ask them to). Does anyone expect that the trial judge will suffer political backlash for having elevated his own moral beliefs over an adherence to the statute? I sure don’t. I’ve never seen conservative politics suffer any political backlash from conservative judicial rulings in my lifetime. If progressive are suffering that sort of backlash, I think it’s the fault of the political leaders rather than the lawyers or the judges.