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The most famous example of this is [[Roe v. Wade]]. Other examples include Brown v Board of Education which stripped state powers of control over education and put them in the hands of the federal government <ref name = "Deseret News">{{cite news |title= Anti-segregation ruling wrong |url=http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645195135,00.html |date= August 22, 2006}}</ref>, McCreary County v. ACLU in which judges stripped free speech and religious freedom from McCreary County <ref name = "Supreme Court of the United States">{{cite news |title= McCreary County v ACLU |url=http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1693.ZS.html |date= June 27, 2005}}</ref> and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court sided with terrorists over the protection of the United States of America. <ref name = "FOX News">{{cite news |title= Supreme Court Blocks Guantanamo Bay War-Crimes Trials |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201530,00.html |date= June 29, 2006}}</ref>. | The most famous example of this is [[Roe v. Wade]]. Other examples include Brown v Board of Education which stripped state powers of control over education and put them in the hands of the federal government <ref name = "Deseret News">{{cite news |title= Anti-segregation ruling wrong |url=http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645195135,00.html |date= August 22, 2006}}</ref>, McCreary County v. ACLU in which judges stripped free speech and religious freedom from McCreary County <ref name = "Supreme Court of the United States">{{cite news |title= McCreary County v ACLU |url=http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1693.ZS.html |date= June 27, 2005}}</ref> and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court sided with terrorists over the protection of the United States of America. <ref name = "FOX News">{{cite news |title= Supreme Court Blocks Guantanamo Bay War-Crimes Trials |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201530,00.html |date= June 29, 2006}}</ref>. | ||
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Revision as of 00:42, February 23, 2007
There are two major types of judicial activism practiced in the United States' court system:
1. Liberal judges striking down laws that uphold core conservative American values
2. Liberal judges refusing to strike down laws that subvert core conservative American values
The most famous example of this is Roe v. Wade. Other examples include Brown v Board of Education which stripped state powers of control over education and put them in the hands of the federal government [1], McCreary County v. ACLU in which judges stripped free speech and religious freedom from McCreary County [2] and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court sided with terrorists over the protection of the United States of America. [3].
References
- ↑ "Anti-segregation ruling wrong", August 22, 2006.
- ↑ "McCreary County v ACLU", June 27, 2005.
- ↑ "Supreme Court Blocks Guantanamo Bay War-Crimes Trials", June 29, 2006.