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When Courts Erase the Spanish Map
In recent years, the Supreme Court has asked judges to test certain rights and regulations against 'history and tradition.' The words feel neutral, even comforting—like walking the family farm before making a will. But methods make worlds. A jurisprudence that privileges a particular.
The Bench of Mirrors: Conservative Judicial Activism and the Roberts Court
In American law, 'activist' is the powdered sugar we throw on the bench when we want to make someone else's footprints more visible than our own. Since the 1980s, the conservative legal movement has acted with strategic purpose—first under 'New Federalism,' then through the Roberts Court's project.
The Art of Calling Someone Else an Activist
Conservative judging since the 1980s—and the paradox of a movement that won by denouncing its own reflection. The term 'judicial activism' is the judiciary's favorite insult and our public square's dullest knife. Everyone uses it to describe the decisions they don't like; few define it before.