Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate ...

Reps. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., and Eli Crane, R-Ariz., have announced they will launch a new task force to fight “judicial overreach.” The Judicial Activism Accountability Task Force will “unite patriots ...

1998—In an oral-history interview, liberal California supreme court justice Stanley Mosk explains that one big difference between him and former California supreme court justice Rose Bird, whom voters ...

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Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett lit into the Supreme Court Monday, saying they allowed a federal judge to become a “super-president” and costing the country $2 billion. The Supreme Court declined ...

Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president to criticize "activist judges" for allegedly obstructing his agenda — but he may be the most vocal. Since the start of his second term, President Trump and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. Casa, Inc.(2025 U.S. LEXIS 2501) struck down the authority of federal district judges to issue nationwide injunctions. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s ...

2013—Ah, yes, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of judicial restraint. Two months after providing the fifth vote to invalidate the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Ginsburg brazenly observes in a ...

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While the judiciary has superseded its authority under the Constitution at various times in America’s past, the appearance of Donald Trump on the national political stage brought about judicial ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard from four nominees for North Carolina’s federal courts on Wednesday as it considers ...

How can you tell if the newest Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an "activist" judge? She admits it. Worse, she appears to think it is her job, if not her duty, to engage in ...