[PhiKapMom]

Very well stated and thanks for the information about the Court. I don't want activists judges no matter what -- I want judges who rule on the law period. Even if I don't like what is ruled, I want it based on the law. I thought that is what conservatives always wanted?

[bigeasy_70118]

I have reason to believe that Pryor did not vote the way the poster suggested and the en banc vote was closer than 10-2. But without any first hand knowledge, I will not print what I was told by someone close to the court.

[VinceJS]

Your argument is circular and facile. You are begging the question as to what the "law" is and trying to make an equivalency between liberal and conservative judicial "activism" when there is not. Which binds judges the most, the written law of legislatures, previous decisions of other judges, or the Constitution? If not the latter, then you are the judicial activist. It's not judicial "activism" to rule the Florida statute authorizing Terri's murder unConstitutional. It is judicial activism to follow the statute in violation of the Florida and United States Constitutions. Legalists will claim "the law was followed". It was not.