Thank Goodness For ‘Activist’ Judges

Judge Stanley Birch, Bush appointee and ‘activist’ judge (really- read this Howard Bashman interview), in yesterday’s ruling against intervention in the Schindler/Schiavo saga:

A popular epithet directed by some members of society, including some members of Congress, toward the judiciary involves the denunciation of “activist judges.” Generally, the definition of an “activist judge” is one who decides the outcome of a controversy before him according to personal conviction, even one sincerely held, as opposed to the dictates of the law as constrained by legal
precedent and, ultimately, our Constitution. In resolving the Schiavo controversy it is my judgment that, despite sincere and altruistic motivation, the legislative and executive branches of our government have acted in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers