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Subject:	Re: STATE'S RIGHTS ON THE COMEBACK
From:	Edward D Ragan <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:10:01 +0000
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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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