Days after Ronald Reagan has defeated Jimmy Carter in his bid for re-election and after Republicans have won control of the incoming Senate, President Carter nominates Stephen G. Breyer, then ...

As the current term of the U.S. Supreme Court gets underway, with two new associate justices, we explore in this inquiry an idea that has recently been used slur of sorts: “judicial activism.” ...

Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), has described the late Emmanuel Ayoola, a former supreme court ...

If we return to an era of judicial activism, where courts feel emboldened to craft precedents more-or-less out of whole cloth, we may find ourselves longing for the relative predictability of the ...

With Moraes’s judicial activism, this is a recipe for disaster. Brazil is becoming a cautionary tale of using putatively democratic institutions to destroy democracy and the dangers of judicial ...

Supporters of the constitutional amendments said they would curb judicial activism. Critics said judicial independence had been damaged. By Salman Masood Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan After ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, on Monday described late Supreme Court Justice Emmanuel Ayoola as a ...

EU migrant return deal, a central part of Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to stop the small boats crossing the Channel.Leading ...

One label to put on such activity is judicial activism. While the term judicial activism refers most commonly to a school of ...

Oklahomans are justifiably concerned about judicial activism. Even “minor” rulings can have major consequences. A recent ...

1963—Ernesto Miranda is arrested in Phoenix on charges of abduction and rape. His interrogation by police yields a written confession. His confession is admitted at trial, and he is convicted.