Judicial Restraint v. Judicial Activism

What is judicial activism?

• the belief that justices should narrowly interpret the Constitution and defer decision making power to elected officials

• the power a court has to hear legal cases and make legal decisions regarding those cases

• the judicial branch's power to nullify governmental acts that violate the Constitution

• the belief that justices should defend rights an liberties even if they're not explicitly stated in the Constitution

The reluctance to interpret the law and to hesitate to overturn existing precedent unless it is obviously unconstitutional is called what?

• judicial restraint

• constitutional interpretation

• judicial review

• judicial activism

Requiring states to provide legal aid for the poor

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Activism

The court follows precedent.

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Activism

Requiring prison modernization

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Activism

Struck down Florida recount in Bush v. Gore 2000

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Activism

"Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them..."

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Activism

Requiring states to educate those that are undocumented.

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Activism

Court rules that separate but equal upholds the equal protection clause (14th Amendment)

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Activism

Struck down state death penalties for mentally disabled in Atkins v. VA 2002

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Activism