For SCOTUS watchers, judicial restraint has left the building

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“It’s not only wanting to have a very firm conservative stamp on the court, but it is impatient and won’t wait for the right cases to do that and won’t use an incremental approach,” @LawrenceGostin told @KelseyReichmann.

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For SCOTUS watchers, judicial restraint has left the building
Experts see ideological forces behind the majority’s rush to recalibrate constitutional law.
11:10 AM · Jul 6, 2022

https://www.courthousenews.com/for-scotus-watchers-judicial-restraint-has-left-the-building/

WASHINGTON (CN) — The conservative majority of the Supreme Court is making broad changes to American law on a tight timeline in moves that are giving the public, and even several justices, pause.

“I would call the majority restless,” Lawrence Gostin, faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Georgetown Law, said in a phone interview. “It’s not only wanting to have a very firm conservative stamp on the court, but it is impatient and won’t wait for the right cases to do that and won’t use an incremental approach.”

Just a week after the court threw out New York’s concealed-carry restrictions last month, it voted 6-3 to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate pollutants that contribute to climate change. While doing so, the majority made it a point to endorse a controversial doctrine that hamstrings the authority of the administrative state. Experts were critical of this EPA decision both because of its breadth and because of its basis on an outdated regulation the government has no intention of using again.

“This court’s majority is making fundamental changes to the law as fast and broadly as it can,” said Richard Bernstein, an appellate lawyer who filed an amici brief before the court in a challenge to New York’s concealed carry regulations.

Bernstein continued: “The repeated haste and broad reach of this court’s majority is not how conservatives act. It is, unfortunately, characteristic of how ideologues pursuing radical changes act when they attain power.”

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1. These must be the "activist judges" Republicans have been warning us about for years.

[unblock]

2. Just another fake complaint like "deficit spending".

A fake excuse to use to object to anything democrats might want to do, but the minute republicans have a chance to do something, they don't give a crap about.

[Midnight Writer]

3. They seem to be soliciting cases, inviting lawsuits on issues they can use to overturn precedents.

Pretty much the definition of "Activist Judges".

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4. How anyone can still believe the current SC isn't corrupt when its MAGA majority is openly

soliciting new suits challenging established precedents just so they can be overturned?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. This Subversive Court leaves all precedent and law in doubt. What can one rely on?