Word: usurpedâ
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This is so not only in the U.S. Supreme Court, which is expected to be the final arbiter of the law, but in courts all over the country. By reading their own views into broadly worded statutes and vaguely defined constitutional rights, judges have assumed?some say usurped???unaccustomed roles. Increasingly, judges, state and federal, can be found ordering government boards and agencies to obey the law. When the boards balk, as they often do, judges end up running school boards, welfare agencies, mental hospitals and prisons. Just last month, for instance, a Boston judge placed 67 public housing projects...
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