Judicial engagement entails impartial, evidence-based judicial inquiry into the lawfulness of the government's true ends and means, without deference to the government officials' beliefs about the law or unsupported factual assertions.
If the Constitution is to be effectively enforced against the political branches when the chips are down and the stakes are high, we must have judges who are committed to judicial engagement: conscientious, impartial truth-seeking in every constitutional case, without unwarranted deference to the political branches.
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Government will remain unchecked and unbalanced until judges reject such unwarranted judicial deference and embrace judicial engagement -- conscientious, impartial judicial inquiry into whether the government is pursuing constitutionally proper ends through means that are necessary to accomplish those ends.
Thus, I advocate judicial engagement--genuinely impartial, evidence-based judicial inquiry into whether the government's actions are truly calculated to achieve a constitutionally proper end of government, without deference to government officials' beliefs, desires or unsupported factual assertions.
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That logic requires consistent judicial engagement--a genuine, impartial effort to determine the truth concerning the constitutionality of the government's actions in every constitutional case.
Is he going to be impartial?" said Tahir Talati, of the thinktank Muslim Engagement and Development, which is backing the imams' call.
All of these cases are examples of judicial engagement: The Court made a genuine, impartial effort in each case to determine whether the government's actions were constitutional, requiring the government to demonstrate a substantial evidentiary connection to a constitutionally legitimate end.
Bishop said the article was "clearly not" impartial and criticised Raby for being "profoundly ignorant" about the level of engagement between China and Australia.
