Quote Originally Posted by Irving Washington View Post
You think the conservatives on the Court haven't already been activists? Just in the small area I have practiced in, they have substantially changed the law on sovereign immunity, the enforceability of federal statutes under section 1983, rewrote the ADA, among other things.
I only care about the Court being activist on matters I don't want them to be activist about.

Seriously, I am talking about really big changes that affect everyone. Roberts believes in what he calls "judicial modesty." That's why he stretched to avoid overturning the ACA (Obamacare). He didn't want to strike down a law that had passed with a huge majority in Congress.