Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
Congress is dysfunctional.
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.
The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.
So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.