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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s reaction to yesterday’s ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act no doubt represented the sentiments of more than a few of her fellow Republicans.
”[T]his was an activist court that you saw today,” opined Bachmann, invoking one of the GOP’s favorite bugaboos — judicial activism.
Judicial activism, if you don’t know, is basically defined as a court ruling that overturns a democratically-enacted law. When it suits their political purposes, conservatives like to pretend that any such ruling amounts to judicial usurpation of the legislative function. They say it amounts to judges making law ...
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