Word: antiactivist
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...conservatives decried "judicial activism," they were referring to those judges who picked the side of the case they personally preferred and then stretched the Constitution or ran roughshod over state-court decisions in order to make the outcome fit their preference. But I was apparently mistaken, since the conservative, antiactivist majority on the Supreme Court employed precisely that method to decide the Florida voting case that made Bush President. (Extrapolating from some surveys I've done, I calculate that there are now approximately 23 people in the U.S. who genuinely believe the Justices would have made the same decision...
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