Judicial restraint as a concept can be traced to an influential 1893 article by Harvard law professor James Bradley Thayer. Thayer argued that statutes should be invalidated only if their ...

In particular, I contend that the founders were believers in judicial restraint or judicial deference, while Root argues for a kind of libertarian judicial activism in defense of individual rights.

Some people have called for the “strict construction” of the Constitution by the Supreme Court. In fact, strict construction is a myth, and was repudiated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

The Supreme Court (SC) is unlikely to interfere with Congress in the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte, according to ...