Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180905:19:50:00
How would you describe a judicial activist? >> i would describe a judicial activist as someone who lets his or her personal or policy preferences override the interpretation of the law, and that can go in either direction. so, a judge who strikes down a law as unconstitutional when the text and precedent don't support that result, or a judge in the other direction who up holds the law as constitutional when the text and precedent would suggest that the law is, in fact, unconstitutional. so, too, in statutory cases. it's the same principle. when a judge does not stick with the compromises that ...