Findlaw Commentator: McCain proves judicial activism is a non-issue
Edward Lazarus has this commentary on Findlaw: McCain’s Remarks Regarding the Kind of Judges He Would Nominate As President: His Surprising Failure to Take Into Account the Rightward Turn of the Supreme Court and of the Law in Recent History
He comments on a recent speech by John McCain, wherein, McCain vowed to oppose judicial activism and appoint judges like Roberts and Alito.
According to Lazarus: “There is an obvious reason why McCain could muster only scant evidence for his rant against liberal judicial activism: Liberal judicial activism, as McCain invokes the term, has been dying for a long time and is now pretty close to dead. The Supreme Court is decidedly conservative and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.”