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Spot-on.
It's time that we as a society acknowledge the fact that, despite the right's incessant screeching about "liberal activist judges," the true dangerous radicals--and by that I mean jurists who hold non-majoritarian fringe views and arrive at their decisions based on what they view as the desirable policy outcome of their rulings rather than the established statutory and judge-made law--are consistently Supreme Court Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts and their Federalist Society disciples on the lower federal benches.
To my mind, Alito, with his infamous dissent as a member of a Third Circuit three-judge panel in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, may be the most dangerous of them all. Where was the criticism of Alito as an unprincipled, intemperate activist who empathized with "unborn children" at the expense of grown women and their families when he was nominated to serve on our highest court?
