{"id":4642,"date":"2011-05-24T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T22:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2011-05-24T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T22:14:16","slug":"its-not-judicial-activism-when-they-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4642","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not judicial activism when they do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would very much like to know the legal basis upon which a Texas judge <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/05\/24\/texas-cesar-chavez-street\/\">enjoined the City of San Antonio<\/a> from naming a street after Cesar Chavez. Given the two hundred name changes that went unchallenged (according to the proponent of the name change), it&#8217;s hard to believe there&#8217;s some sort of statutory standard at issue here. And while I&#8217;m certain it&#8217;s a motivating facor, surely even a Texas judge would not explicitly adopt the obviously racist reasons put forth by the opponents. <\/p>\n<p>This would appear to be an almost pure political question, meaning, as we learned in first year law school, that judges are supposed to avoid them at all costs. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would very much like to know the legal basis upon which a Texas judge enjoined the City of San Antonio from naming a street after Cesar Chavez. Given the two hundred name changes that went unchallenged (according to the proponent of the name change), it&#8217;s hard to believe there&#8217;s some sort of statutory standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawyer-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}