‘Judicial Activism’ on Campaign Finance Law

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from Truthdig:



‘Judicial Activism’ on Campaign Finance Law

Posted on Aug 2, 2009
By Ruth Marcus


Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said last week that he would vote against confirming Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court because he doubts she will “resist the siren call of judicial activism.”

If that’s what he’s worried about, there are some sitting justices whom Sessions might want to lash to the mast—quickly. Except these justices tend to be in Sessions’ ideological camp.

Next month, even before the traditional first Monday in October opening and almost certainly with Sotomayor on the bench, the court will hear a campaign finance case that illustrates the activist itch among its conservatives.

Rehear it, actually. In a surprise move on the last day of the term, the court announced that it would hold a new argument in the case—and that it would consider overruling two precedents upholding limits on corporate money in the political process.

Talk about judicial activism. ..........(more)

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