We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.
I am concerned about the Supreme Court's judicial activism which has usurped congressional authority,
He cannot be required to answer how he's going to decide a case that might come before the court, ... That would undercut the very basics of judicial independence.
These decisions pose two major problems, ... A lack of stability or predictability in the law because the two cases, decided three years apart, are virtually indistinguishable; and, two, the court's judicial activism in functioning as a super legislature.
I'm really sorry that on doctrinal grounds they don't understand that she cannot tip her hand on Roe. I really think ... they're failing to understand a very basic constitutional principle of judicial independence,
His approach of modesty, of stability, and away from judicial activism, I think, is a model. Whether it is carried out, remains to be seen.
He said that his personal feelings would not be a factor in his judicial decision.
I do see a great deal of popular and Congressional dissatisfaction with the judicial activism; and, at a minimum, the Senate's determination to confirm new justices who will respect Congress' constitutional role,
the hallmark agenda of the judicial activism of the Rehnquist Court.