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Joe Scarborough: I think it is time for us to come together as a country and as a legislative body and reexamine the realities of the…

On the recordApril 16, 1997
I think it is time for us to come together as a country and as a legislative body and reexamine the realities of the judiciary in the late 20th century and recognize that things have moved in a certain direction, a bit away from what our Founding Fathers anticipated, and get Congress to start looking into the issue of judicial activism, which we have heard hues and cries about for many years now, and just see if judicial activism really does pose the type of threat to the Constitution that many of us believe it does, and, if so, hopefully, we can enact some commonsense solutions without going after any judge, without attacking any particular viewpoint and just have a thoughtful examination of what type of institutional changes that Republicans and Democrats and conservatives and liberals can all come together on to make sure that the judiciary does its job, does the job that our Founders intended it to do and, while doing that, we maintain a clear separation of powers between all branches.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

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Addressing the need for a rational examination of judicial activism and its implications for the Constitution.

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