Then who are all the activist judges?

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills - Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush's appointment of federal judges - Brief Article

James T. Patterson points out in the Oxford History of the United States from 1975-2000 that Ronald Reagan alone appointed almost half of all sitting federal judges. Add those appointed by Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and the two Bushes, and you can see that we now have a federal judiciary that is...

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