Reason.tv Replay: Damon Root on Judicial Activism, Conservatives v. Libertarians, and More!

Should the Supreme Court practice judicial restraint?

In his cover story from the July issue of Reason, Associate Editor Damon W. Root discussed how the debate over judicial activism is dividing the conservative legal movement. Root sat down with Reason.tv Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie to discuss libertarian and conservative legal theories, judicial activism, Elena Kagan's nomination, and more.  Approximately 10 minutes.  Shot by Meredith Bragg, Josh Swain and Dan Hayes. Edited by Hayes.

Below see a 50-minute debate between Root, Doug Kendall of the Constitutional Accountability Center, and Federalist Society President Eugene B. Meyer. The debate took place at Reason headquarters in Washington D.C on June 30th, 2010.

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Comments

[Jeffersonian]

"Activism" is when the SCOTUS deviates from statutes as written (when consitutional) or from the Constitution and Amendments as understood when written. It has nothing to do with precedent or deference.

[WTF]

Pretty much, yeah. The Slaughterhouse majority were pretty activist judges.

[AT]

The camera moves!