Republican National Convention '08

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Abortion hasn't been "legislated" from the bench since before John McCain was 150 years old.

Nor has anything involving homosexuality.

The last time I remember anyone leveling the "legislating from the bench" charge during an actual S.C. case was for Schaivo, which had to do with neither abortion nor homos.

And in going over the speech, I thought "that's about abortion" on that part.

Gay rights is certainly a component of what people mean when they refer to "legislating from the bench", but, as corroborated by sleepy's Google results, I've always perceived it to refer primarily to the abortion issue, and when not, then as a general term that means "The Supreme Court came to a conclusion that we don't agree with" not reserved for any issue.