Examiner.Com covers: Court: Measure Can't Be on Colo. Ballot. Courts denied the people the right to put an amendment on the ballot for November's elections. Judicial activism is growing from both sides of the aisle, but, when it acts to block the people's democracy, we have gone many steps too far.
In a dissent, Justices Nathan Coats and Nancy Rice expressed concern that the court's majority decision was influenced by the motives of the measure's proponents and by its potential effects.They said the court has inconsistently applied the single-subject requirement, giving justices "unfettered discretion to either approve or disapprove virtually any popularly initiated ballot measure at will."
Stephanie said at :
4:14 PM, 07 06 2006 | Permalink
This certainly is a horrid display of judicial activism, as most of such acts are. There are the rare gems in which judicial activism acts in favor of the good of the people, but that seems to be more and more rare these days. Whether they be liberal or conservative, judges should only over-turn the will of the people with extreme caution (I'm thinking of opening up truly equal and integrated schools, for example) and even then there are better, truly Constitutional means.
Stephanie | July 6, 2006 4:14 PM
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