I will try to find the research; it has been published

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--- On Fri, 9/11/09, Edward D Ragan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Edward D Ragan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] STATE'S RIGHTS ON THE COMEBACK
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 11:18 AM

Finkelman, you rock. This is a great piece of information. Has this  
research been summed up in a single source?
Best,
Ed Ragan

On Sep 11, 2009 10:00am, Paul Finkelman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> By every measure of judicial activism, and this has been done by  
> political scientists who are in effect only looking at outcomes -- not  
> substance -- the most "activist" justices on the Court in the last 50s  
> years have been Scalia and Thomas, followed by Rehnquist. They have voted  
> to overturn more federal and state legislation than any other justices.

> When people complain about "activist" judges, is this what they have in  
> mind?

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