Unhappy with the Supreme Court’s rulings against New Deal legislation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Court to as many as 15 justices. On the pretext that ...

Claims of “judicial activism” are nothing new. Ever since the term was coined by US historian Arthur Schlesinger in 1947, it has been regularly invoked in the United States to describe judges ...

As the current term of the U.S. Supreme Court gets underway, with two new associate justices, we explore in this inquiry an idea that has recently been used slur of sorts: “judicial activism.” ...

Judicial activism has played a crucial role in shaping India's legal landscape by ensuring that justice is accessible and that fundamental rights are protected. While it empowers the judiciary to act ...

1857—Chief Justice Taney’s ruling in Dred Scott marks the Supreme Court’s first use of the modern liberal judicial activist’s favorite tool—“substantive due process”—to invalidate ...

And, on the specific facts of the case where former President Donald Trump was gifted broad grants of immunity, the dissent accuses her conservative colleagues of “judicial activism, not ...

criticized "judicial activism." He said it's crucial that judges as well as Supreme Court justices "stay in their lane." Deters said a justice's job is to interpret laws, determine if they're ...

Chamath Palihapitiya has moved his recent business incorporations to Nevada, citing concerns over Delaware's judicial system.