Judicial Activism Debate: Here is what Justice Markman has to say about the controversy concerning assertions of the court's judicial activism, assertions which have swirled around the Michigan Supreme Court since Engler stacked the bench with judges who are more interested in making law than following it.
"What is reflected in these cases is a continuing jurisprudential debate concerning the role of the judicial branch and the meaning of the “judicial power,” concerning the relationship between the courts and other branches of government, concerning how the language of the law is to be interpreted and given meaning, concerning the impact of precedent, and concerning how the law can best be maintained as a stable and predictable body. Obviously, these are matters about which a consensus cannot always be found on this Court. Yet there is a consensus that these are matters worthy of reflection and analysis and debate, and that is what you have. And it is a debate, in my judgment, that has been carried out in a robust, but also a civil, fashion." more ...
Do we need any more of an invitation to take this debate from the judicial halls to the street, right to the citizens of Michigan?
Comments