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Showing posts with label Unelected activist Judges making the law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unelected activist Judges making the law. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Lushington Brady: Judges Need to Stay in Their Lanes


Who is running our countries? Elected representatives or unelected judicial activists?

Are Western democracies governed by elected representatives any more, or have we just handed government over to an unelected elite of activist judges?

Too often, judges are taking it on themselves to not stay in their lane of interpreting the laws written by elected officials, but effectively making their own out of whole cloth. Even as far back as 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled on Roe v Wade, based not on anything even vaguely laid out in the Constitution, but the judges’ ‘I Just Reckon’. It took 50 years to correct that judicial overreach.