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Q: Is the Supreme Court really activist?

A: No:

• Congress passed 15,817 laws from 1954 to 2002.  The Supreme Court struck down 103—or just two-thirds of one percent.

•    State legislatures passed 1,006,649 laws over the same period but the Court only struck down 452—or less than one twentieth of one percent.
•    The federal government adopted 21,462 regulations from 1986-2006.  The Court struck down 121—or about a half of a percent.
•    In any given year, the Court strikes down just three out of every 5,000 laws passed by Congress and state legislatures.
•    The Supreme Court overturned precedents in just two percent of cases considered from 1954 to 2010.

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    Is the Supreme Court really activist? A: No: Congress passed 15,817 laws from 1954 to 2002. The Supreme Court struck...

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    This chart is a little misleading; laws listed as “struck down” are only those that were being directly challenged....

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