Judiciary
Columnist Says ‘Judges Gone Wild’ Theory Is Incorrect
Are liberal activist judges thwarting the will of the people with their flexible reading of the Constitution?
Ruth Marcus doesn’t think so. In an opinion column for the Washington Post she takes aim at presidential contender John McCain for criticizing judges who “legislate from the bench.”
“The world he sketches of liberal Judges Gone Wild is largely imaginary,” she writes. “The freewheeling jurisprudence of the 1960s has tempered, if not vanished. That’s not surprising: Seven of the nine Supreme Court justices are Republican appointees, as are about 100 of the 166 appeals court judges.”
