THE ACTIVIST COURT

There seems to be no stopping point for the recent liberal activism of the Rehnquist Court. This Term alone, the Court has extended the federal Enforcement Clause power-grab far beyond the limits set by the Voting Rights Act cases decided by the Warren and Burger Courts, has upheld a racially discriminatory admissions program functionally indistinguishable from the one invalidated in Bakke, and is poised to overrule well-settled precedent by creating a constitutional right to homosexual sodomy. The media mantra, of course, is that this is a "conservative" court. As readers of this site are well-aware, the reality is very different indeed.