What's more, a few high-profile cases notwithstanding, the Court under John Roberts has arguably been less activist overall than under his predecessors as chief justice.
"Many of the foot soldiers will be missing in action, and there is less incentive for those activists to get out the vote," she said.
Still, he commutes regularly between Europe and the United States, a habit that he acknowledges is less than ideal for an environmental activist.
But the dynamic of activists-versus-officialdom is less important than the tension between the government in Beijing, which is committed in principle to strong environmental protection, and the unequivocally pro-growth local and provincial governments.
(Both lots of researchers had previously worked in the same research team).That China might be using the internet to spy on Tibetan activists' international contacts is less striking, perhaps, than the remarkable ease with which they snooped on victims.
Gennady Basov, an activist for the interests of Crimean Russians, is less partisan but equally angry.
This is because Mr Greenwald is less a journalist than an activist an écrivain engagé a bias that he wears as a badge of honour.As a result, the book is remarkably one-sided: Mr Snowden is the whistleblowing hero; Mr Greenwald righteously fights on the side of the angels.
It's not isolationist -- but it's far less activist than the let's-have-a-summit approach of Bill Clinton.
Though executions are less common, the activists say, the judicial system still lacks any kind of independence and miscarriages of justice are still commonplace.Teng Biao, a lawyer who helped form a group opposed to the death penalty, says he gets little public support for his cause, though people react to individual cases of perceived injustice.
