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Ep. 2034 Revolution From the Bench, and Other Evils

The Tom Woods Show

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Is the Supreme Court Really a Constitutional Court?

i agree with you about the centralizing libertarians who have an illusion that ideally we would have really good judges who would just impose libertarian ideas as often as possible. But i think the far better approach is to limit the power of judges to extent possible, rather than do that. I'm just wondering about your thoughts, but there's a limitin pracile originalism and textualism that will require some judges on the right to side with parties they disagree with because the text of a statute, or the constitution, as the case may be, pushes them in one direction. On the left, where there is not really a limiting principle, where it is living constitutionalism, or whatever the theory

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