Elizabeth Ann Andrews Vail died peacefully on April 20, 2022 at South Shore University Hospital on Long Island. She was 71. Elizabeth was born on May 31, 1950, in Tegucigalpa,... more
It’s almost quaint to remember, a decade ago, the standing complaint within the Republican Party that the Democrats were relying too much on “judicial activism” to enact policy. Complaints about so-called activist judges became part of the standard rhetoric, and it continues to this day: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had the gall to cite what he said was Ketanji Brown Jackson’s history of “judicial activism” as a reason he voted against her appointment to the Supreme Court. “We’ve seen over and over that when judicial activism triumphs over fidelity to the rule of law, our courts mutate, mutate into ...
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Staff Writer on May 13, 2022