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downWidOutaFite

There is no philosophy, it's just partisan politics. Some examples,

They are supposedly "originalist" except in their 2nd amendment rulings they ignore "A well regulated Militia" because guns is a Republican religion.

In banning Biden's student relief they ignored the text of the law and legislated from the bench just saying that it was unfair because the size was too "significant". Activism.

Last year they invented out of thin air the "major questions doctrine" to override the Clean Air Act and help polluters. Activism.

In 2022, without citing any principle, they said OSHA couldn't protect workers from covid. Activism.

When they gutted the Voting Rights Act they invented an "equal dignity of the states" doctrine. Activism.

To conservatives judicial activism is only a problem when liberals do it.

I don't feel strongly about "activism" being inherently good or bad (and don't agree with all of the outcomes in those cases) but I think your reasoning isn't great. For example:

> In banning Biden's student relief they ignored the text of the law and legislated from the bench just saying that it was unfair because the size was too "significant". Activism.

I think the majority opinion explains this quite clearly: > The HEROES Act, Roberts emphasized, gives the secretary of education the power to “waive or modify” laws and regulations governing the student-loan programs. Congress’s use of the word “modify” means that the Biden administration can make “modest adjustments and additions to existing provisions,” Roberts wrote, “not transform them.” But the debt-relief program, Roberts stressed, instead “created a novel and fundamentally different loan forgiveness program.” The plan “modifies” student-loan laws and regulations, Roberts suggested, “only in the same sense that the French Revolution ‘modified’ the status of the French nobility — it has abolished them and supplanted them with a new regime entirely.” (from scotusblog)

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