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Colby Cosh, on the uneasy relationship between social conservatives and the exercise of judicial review:
Can’t social conservatives tell the difference between judicial activism that expands the power of the state—like adding newly-invented “protected grounds” to discrimination law—and judicial activism that inhibits it?
Nah. What they care about is that the power of the state be used for their own preferred ends.
Like all good social science, it generalizes to both sides of the 49th parallel.
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