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| − | The most famous example of this is [[Roe v. Wade]]. Other examples include Brown v Board of Education which stripped state powers of control over education and put them in the hands of the federal government <ref>Deseret News, Aug. 22 2006[http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645195135,00.html]</ref>, McCreary County v. ACLU in which judges stripped free speech and religious freedom from McCreary County <ref>Supreme Court of the United States[http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1693.ZS.html]</ref>, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court sided with terrorists over the protection of the United States of America. <ref>FOX News June 29, 2006[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201530,00.html]</ref> and Schiavo v. Schiavo, in which judges ordered the death of an innocent handicapped woman so that her husband could take her money (a clear violation of the core conservative American value of right to life) <ref>http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/schiavo/</ref>. | + | The most famous example of this is [[Roe v. Wade]]. Other examples include Brown v Board of Education and Loving v Virginia<ref>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html</ref> which stripped state powers of control over education and put them in the hands of the federal government <ref>Deseret News, Aug. 22 2006[http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645195135,00.html]</ref>, McCreary County v. ACLU in which judges stripped free speech and religious freedom from McCreary County <ref>Supreme Court of the United States[http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1693.ZS.html]</ref>, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court sided with terrorists over the protection of the United States of America. <ref>FOX News June 29, 2006[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201530,00.html]</ref> and Schiavo v. Schiavo, in which judges ordered the death of an innocent handicapped woman so that her husband could take her money (a clear violation of the core conservative American value of right to life) <ref>http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/schiavo/</ref>. |
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Revision as of 18:20, February 23, 2007
There are two major types of judicial activism practiced in the United States' court system:
1. Liberal judges striking down laws that uphold core conservative American values
2. Liberal judges refusing to strike down laws that subvert core conservative American values
The most famous example of this is Roe v. Wade. Other examples include Brown v Board of Education and Loving v Virginia[1] which stripped state powers of control over education and put them in the hands of the federal government [2], McCreary County v. ACLU in which judges stripped free speech and religious freedom from McCreary County [3], Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court sided with terrorists over the protection of the United States of America. [4] and Schiavo v. Schiavo, in which judges ordered the death of an innocent handicapped woman so that her husband could take her money (a clear violation of the core conservative American value of right to life) [5].
- ↑ http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html
- ↑ Deseret News, Aug. 22 2006[1]
- ↑ Supreme Court of the United States[2]
- ↑ FOX News June 29, 2006[3]
- ↑ http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/schiavo/