Constitution Quote by Adam Cohen

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions…

— Jeff Greenfield

Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves.

— Wendy Long

Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.

— Adam Cohen

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

— Michael Kinsley

Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges…

— Chuck Grassley

Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who…

— Robert Bork

There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks…

— Adam Cohen

It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the…

— David Josiah Brewer

The American people have made clear that they want justices who have proven records of judicial restraint - exactly the kind of justices that…

— Wendy Long

This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We, conservatives, want a particular legal philosophy, a…

— Ann Coulter

Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also…

— Murray Rothbard

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is…

— Learned Hand