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September 13, 2005

Key: Is Overturning Congress Presumptively Activism?

Hatch asks Roberts what judicial activism means to him. When the court strikes down a congressional act, is that activism?

"If the court strikes down an act of Congress and it's wrong, that's not an act of judicial activism, it's just being wrong."

"It is not judicial activism when the courts do that."

Posted by Marc Ambinder | 10:57 AM



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