[ProgressingAmerica]

"Judicial activism" is completely unrelated to Marbury v. Madison. We know this because the progressives are so adamant about this being the truth.

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[BenLurkin]

Marbury v. Madison is a terrible decision.

It marks the beginning of the courts exceeding their role authority in the system of check and balances.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Marbury v. Madison was the first time the Supreme Court struck down an act of Congress as unconstitutional. It was not, actually, the first time SCOTUS exercised the power of judicial review-- in Hylton v. United States (1796), the Court heard a case challenging a federal tax as an unconstitutional "direct tax." The Court upheld the constitutionality of the tax, but no one on the Court thought that it didn't have the power to review the constitutionality of acts of Congress.

"Judicial activism" has no real fixed definition-- it means judicial review that results in a decision you don't agree with. Conservatives think that court decisions striking down gun control laws are great; liberals call them "judicial activism." When it comes to court decisions striking down gay marriage bans, the roles are reversed.

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Would you be willing to weigh in on this one? Interested in your perspective. I’ve wondered about this a lot! Thanks!

[fella]

There quite a number of examples of judicial activism in the Bible.