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by lolinder 718 days ago
Did you look at the table linked by OP? What you're describing is definitely the meme that's been going around, but how much of the sense that this court is more activist than the last few is just the amplification of social media? OP's table pretty clearly shows that overturning well-established precedent is just what the Supreme Court does.

Looking at the rulings in that table, the main difference that I see between this court and previous courts is that this is the first time that a conservative court has thrown caution to the wind and started overturning what they see as bad precedent. Typically conservative justices have held themselves to a standard that liberal justices did not, and the Trump era definitely ushered in a set of judges that were done with that double standard.

I'm willing to have a conversation about the merits of the individual rulings (there are some I disagree with!), but that's a separate question from whether this court is doing something that hasn't already been the norm for a century or longer.

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My comment had nothing to do with wether or not the Court is being more or less activist. It was about the consequences of some key rulings.