Activist Quote by Sam Ervin

Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust…

— Anonymous

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the…

— Ron Wyden

There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge.

— Don Willett

“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating in its…

— Jack N. Rakove

Judges are either partial to the Constitution or they aren't; they either believe that the document is perfect in its form and that rights…

— Dana Loesch

If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike…

— Ann Coulter

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the…

— Orrin Hatch

Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read the Constitution.

— Joe Biden

I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the original paradigm…

— Jeffrey Rosen

One of our Constitution's greatest virtues is that it looks to judges as a source of reasoned, practical, rights-minded decision making.

— Neal Katyal

We have a problem with judicial activism in this country.

— Dan Bongino

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

— Michael Kinsley