Electing good judges and making your opinion heard in the judicial appointment process, is becoming increasingly important due to many judges being activist vs. restrained; e.g. the elimination of school prayer in the activist 1962 Supreme Court ruling was precedent setting in that the ruling was not based on legal precedent.

Restrained judges respect the political process, whether they agree with its results or not, until it clearly crosses a clear constitutional line.  Activist judges feel free to re-write statutes or the Constitution, to use extra-legal factors in their decisions, to ignore limits on their power in the search for desirable results.

Following are some web sites for becoming an informed citizen on judges: